![]() The house has Scottish Baronial features in a Tudor or Elizabethan architectural style, although it is a late Regency, Georgian house and not a Victorian house. In 2015, it received a grant of almost £1 million from the Welsh Government. Plans were made to convert the building to a hotel, to flats, and to a convalescent home, but the building remained unused and deteriorating until 2011, when the council sold the house and park to the Golden Grove Trust, formed to make the house a destination for art and cultural activities and restore the park. Subsequently, Carmarthenshire County Council used it as offices, and Coleg Sir Gâr operated it as an agricultural college until 2003. ![]() During the Second World War, it was occupied by the United States Army Air Forces. Golden Grove remained in Cawdor family occupation until 1935. Correspondence exists between the two families relating to the huge costs of construction of both Golden Grove and Lilleshall, and the problems in bringing them to completion created by Wyatville's preoccupation with the complexities and demands of his new schemes for the king. Wyatville was simultaneously occupied in the extensive remodelling of Windsor Castle for King George IV, and subsequently King William lV, as well as the building of a remarkably similar property, Lilleshall Hall in Shropshire, for Cawdor's cousin, George Leveson-Gower, nephew of the Duke of Sutherland. ![]() He demolished the existing building and built the current house, designed by the leading architect Sir Jeffry Wyatville, 700 yards (640 m) to the south-west above the original (begun 1827, completed 1834). In 1804, the estate was bequeathed by John Vaughan, the last of the Golden Grove Vaughans, to his Oxford friend John Frederick Campbell, Lord Cawdor of Castlemartin, later 1st Earl Cawdor. This was destroyed by fire and replaced in 1754 by a Neoclassical box of fine quality, with a long Doric-columned portico. The first was built in 1560 by the Vaughan family, which was later ennobled as Earls of Carbery. There have been three mansions on the estate. ![]() Golden Grove ( Welsh: Gelli Aur) is a mansion and estate in the Welsh county of Carmarthenshire, located 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Llandeilo. ![]() Location of Golden Grove in Carmarthenshire ![]()
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