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| Highlights |  | Events
Daffodil days, Easter trail, plant fair, shearing day, brewing weekend, children's activity days, learn-about-farming day, apple week |  | Guided tours
Guided tours of the garden and Home Farm start 1:30 every Thur, June to end Sept. £1, including NT members. Mobile induction loop available on request |  | Country walks
Five walks leaflets (50p each) |
About this property
Mr J. P. Ponsonby Lewes, last of the ten generations of the family to have lived here, bequeathed Llanerchaeron to the National Trust in 1989. This rare example of a self-sufficient 18th-century Welsh minor gentry estate has survived virtually unaltered. The villa, designed in the 1790s, is the most complete example of the early work of John Nash. It has its own service courtyard with dairy, laundry, brewery and salting house, and walled kitchen gardens producing fruit, vegetables, herbs and plants, all now on sale in season. The pleasure grounds with ornamental lake provide wonderful peaceful walks. The Home Farm complex has an impressive range of traditional and atmospheric outbuildings and is now a working organic farm with Welsh Black cattle, Llanwenog sheep and rare Welsh pigs. Visitors can see farming activities in progress, such as lambing, shearing and hay-making. Beyond, the wide expanse of parkland offers breathtaking walks through the beautiful Aeron Valley.
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