Tredegar House

About the museum

Tredegar House was the home of the Morgan family, who held the Tredegar estate for more than 500 years. The oldest surviving part of the house dates from the late fifteenth century. The present red-brick mansion was built for William Morgan between 1664 and 1672 in the Carolean style, and later owners added a Bath stone porch and modern services such as electricity.

The Morgans rose to a baronetcy in 1792 and a barony in 1859, and the family included Godfrey Morgan, who survived the Charge of the Light Brigade and became Lord Tredegar in 1875, and his relative Evan Morgan, the second Viscount, who died in 1949. In 1950 the last Lord Tredegar closed the house because of the cost of upkeep and sold it, without its contents, to the Sisters of St Joseph, who ran a convent school there from 1952.

Newport County Council bought the house in 1974 and restored it as a museum. The National Trust took it over in 2012 under a long lease. The Grade I listed house is today shown through its state rooms and its below-stairs areas, and it stands within formal gardens and around 90 acres of parkland with an ornamental lake and woodland.

The Home Farm buildings, including the Grade II listed Brewhouse, once helped to make the estate self-sufficient and now house the café.

Highlights

• Carolean red-brick mansion of the 1660s and 1670s, Grade I listed
• State rooms and below-stairs areas
• Formal gardens, including the laundry garden
• Free parkland with a lake, woodland and off-lead dog space
• Brewhouse café in the Home Farm buildings

Permanent exhibition

• Mansion house: state rooms and below stairs – The 17th-century red-brick mansion of the Morgan family, with its state rooms and the servants' areas below stairs.

Operated by

National Trust

Admission & discounts

Prices are for the mansion house and gardens without Gift Aid; with Gift Aid an adult pays £15.40, a child £7.70 and the family tickets £38.50 and £23.10. National Trust members are admitted free. The parkland is free for everyone, but car parking is charged to non-members.

Accessibility

• Partially wheelchair accessible
• Elevator
• Accessible restroom
• Accessible parking
• Service dogs welcome
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

Most of the site is accessible, except some paths in the parkland, the upstairs rooms of the mansion and part of the second-hand bookshop. In the mansion, accessible routes lead to the state rooms and the below-stairs areas, and a mobi-lift (maximum 250 kg) gives access into the house. Manual wheelchairs and one powered mobility vehicle can be borrowed from visitor reception. Accessible toilets are next to the car park, in the Brewhouse café and in the laundry garden. Induction loops are at visitor reception and in the café. There are 13 Blue Badge spaces and three family spaces in the car park. A photograph album shows the upstairs rooms. Only assistance dogs are allowed in the mansion.

Kids & families

• Stroller-friendly

Family tickets are available. The formal gardens have mostly level paths suitable for prams and pushchairs. The play area is temporarily closed while a new one is built.

Getting there & parking

Signposted from the A48 and the M4 (junction 28). Do not enter the postcode in a satnav; use the road name Pencarn Way and follow it to the roundabout at the entrance. Newport city centre is about 3 miles away and the house is on National Cycle Network route 4, with cycle parking next to the Brewhouse café.

Amenities & dining

• Café
• Museum shop

The Brewhouse café is in the Home Farm area, with a grab-and-go counter on busy days. A second-hand bookshop is run by volunteers. Dogs are welcome on a lead almost everywhere except the mansion.

Events & venue rental

The museum hasn’t published any information on this.

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