Grungy Collapsed Staircase in Long Abandoned Dilapidated Ruins of Mansion, Baron Hill House, Anglesey, North Wales (Cymru)

            Anglesey is home to one of the grandest and most intriguing derelict properties in North Wales. Having been left to become a ruin for over 80 years, Baron Hill, a once opulent Georgian mansion, now stands roofless and overgrown, obscured by vines and trees that have been left to grow for most of the past century.

The property was built in 1612 by Sir Richard Bulkeley, an MP for Anglesey and a member of one of the most prominent families in North Wales at the time. Bulkeley died in 1621 and the property was apparently never finished to his specifications which originally featured a hall with short wings forming a U-shaped plan.

The mansion was remodelled several times thereafter. It is an amazing ruin with quite a history attached to it. A young Princess, later Queen, Victoria visited in 1832. During a renovation in 1836 the work was interrupted by fire, being completed two years later.

During the First World War, the dwindling fortunes of the Williams-Burkeley family meant that they could no longer maintain the house and it was abandoned in the 1920s. It was left uninhabited until the Second World War when it was requisitioned by the government to house Polish Soldiers.

Having found the building so cold, the soldiers started a fire inside the mansion in the hope of being moved to new accommodation. But their plan backfired. The flames destroyed large parts of the mansion’s interior, meaning the soldiers had to be moved to tents on the grounds of the estate instead. Since then the mansion has been left to ruin. By the beginning of the 21st century, it was entirely roofless and the interior was gutted.

Taken on: September 8, 2024

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