St Davids Court was known as Bryn Y Garn or Hill of the Rock when it was built in the 1870’s for Reverend Alfred Green, the headmast of St Davids Cathedral Choir School.  He employed a London architect to create a large extensive home for his own family and the chorister boarders.

In 1880 the house was purchased by an eccentric Carmarthenshire farm, Charles ‘Squire’ Morgan, whose Catholic wife set up her own chapel in the grounds and employed a priest.

The house was subsequently sold in 1899 to a widow from Aberystwyth, Ada Lansdowne Miller-Williams, who settled there with her six teenage children.  Ada was romantic, extravagant and creative she and her son, Basil, began a major project to research and depict her familys genealogy on ceramic tiles, which were then displayed in several rooms around the house.  She also decorated floral tiles for the top floor nursery, a frieze of blue and white ‘Wedgewood’ tiles for her studio, ‘Arcadian’ scenes for her bedroom and a fire surround in rococo style for the drawing room.  At least 3,000 tiles originally adorned the walls, many are still in place today.

Basil was also responsible for the Porte-cochere at the front door, the Italianate terracing, the paved arbour and sedilia in the garden, the folly in the wood, the dog kennels and the various Greek and Latin mottoes and symbols over gateways and doors.

The house saw a number of owners over the next 75 years, including the Bosanquets and their Great Danes, Ada Williams’s granddaughter who took in evacuees during the war years, and a youth hostel warden who had orphan boys to stay.  In 1955 it was purchased by Mr and Mrs G. Lloyd, who became the proprietors of a new country house hotel.  The local paper described it as a place of refinement and first class cooking.

In late 1984 the hotel was sold to the current owner, our client, who, seeking a new lifestyle, took on the challenge of continuing to run the house as a hotel.  Giving themselves a limit of ten years of ownership they look back now on thirty years of experiences and have countless tales to tell of good times and visits from celebrities and royalty alike.

They have also compiled a full history of the property and the tile genealogies, copies of which will be made available to the purchaser.