The Lost mansion of Baron Hill ,Balamory North Wales
 

Ok...

Heres a bit of history
The Bulkeleys were originally from Cheshire until William Bulkeley (d. 1490) was appointed Deputy Constable of Beaumaris castle. He managed to marry one of the daughters of Gwilym ap Gruffydd ap Gwilym, a local big cheese, and began the accumulation of land and public offices which eventually lead to the Bulkeley family becoming one of the biggest landowners in Anglesey.
Their family home at Baron Hill, just outside Beaumaris, was originally built during the reign of James I in 1618, and was remodelled in the neo-palladian style in 1776. In the below photo you can see King Edward VII taking afternoon tea on the Baron Hill terrace in 1907



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It is remarkable that just 13 years after this photo was taken the Bulkeley's found that they could no longer afford the house's upkeep and were forced to move to more modest accommodation. Baron Hill was then used as storage until the second world war when it was converted into a billet for Polish soldiers. Apparently the old house was so cold at night that in despair the Poles burned down a portion of the original house in the hope that they would therefore be transferred to warmer accommodation -- unfortunately for them their plan failed and they were instead rehoused in even colder wooden huts in the grounds instead. The house has remained unused since the war and this is how it looks now:




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They have plans too build flats here not sure when, but they've been saying that for a few years now...
Thank you for looking !

Great work well done bud :thumbs

good stuff ive tidied up your img tags and added a space between pics for you

Thank you :)

I love how nature is slowly swallowing up this mansion. Some of your images really capture that well. Also, the tree (2nd pic down I think?) is amazing. Would look good on an horror movie poster, a lá Poltergeist!

Ha! Fancy cladding dropping off to reveal that the Posh live in simple brick houses just like the rest of us :D
Nice piccies there mate. Next time I'm on the island I've gotta make time to do here and Porth Wen... bugger the in-laws! :)

Good stuff, that tree is stunning.

Nice find, It really has been forgotten

Nice report and great shots :thumbs

nicely done :)

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Very nice, really like that.

some great shots there dude, really good to see places like this found and documented again

Thank you for all ur kind comments, im going back in the dark soon that shud be fun :/

I love the look of this place, and I agree with n-munky about how you have captured nature taking over. I'm gonna have to see for myself :)

Brilliant photos - really capture the process of nature reclaiming the land. Always wondered what was up that track with the grand rusty gates and the gatehouse. Interestingly, I had to obtain written permission from the Baron Hill (Bulkeley Family) estates office to land on Puffin Island (no boat charterer would take me over there without it). They evidently still own quite a lot of land on Anglesey.

Excellent :)

Great report and piks :)

We were there at roughly the same time, a local man arrived on scene and told us a bit about the place , he used to play in it when he was about 10 and said you could go in the basements then and it was full of hundreds of light bulbs and slowly over the years the elements and people have take stuff from it till it stands in its present shell like status.

He showed us that knobbly tree too, i took almost the same pik :) theres something like an American redwood to the north of the estate its 41 feet round HUGE!! apparently in its day it had a plant from everywhere in the world in the gardens and greenhouses.

We went there , one of the hotels you covered (found by pure chance on a lane to Red Wharf Bay), the brick pottery remains and the climax of our mini Abandoned in Wales tour...Denbigh.

Bad news was my 32gig card corrupted and lost all my images B=st--d .

Ah well , good time tho.

I loved it here when I visited. There's a real sense of peace about this place; the sympathetic graffiti and the way nature seems to be wrapping her arms around it makes it something special.

Great photos mate this place looks really cool!

That is a lovely looking place. Will have to pay it a visit some time.

Great find!!!

So sad to see grand buildings go to pot

I like this, hope to take a look some time

(btw, spirit2012 - love the avatar!)

Marvellous that mate :thumbs

site been bought by building company who are gonna turn it into flats

My small group of paranormal investigators would love to go here anyone available as a guide please

Hello and welcome :popcorn

You may want to actually read a topic or two before waltzing on and asking for guides. This one will probably give you a clue, it's all in the first post, but others are enlightening too.

http://nwex.co.uk/showthread.php?t=10098

Now, who's got the Popcorn?
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ghosts don't exist. there. job done. :thumbs

...now don't be shy with that popcorn guys! :)

Found the popcorn... It's all mine! MWhahahaha...

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no ,but its people like you that scare me in the dark!! LOL im gunna move this thread i think...

Its usually paranormal investigators that scare me when i go exploring in the dark...so, i wont be guiding you lol

I'm in Angelsey next week... Is this still standing does anybody know? Ta

Still there in the overgrowth I believe.

Don't forget the Saunders Roe factory nearby too.

Nice one thanks :)

nice one you know if it's still there?

Sure is! Went two weeks back with not a lot of time to explore. Will post few shots after the football....

Sound look forward to seeing them mate, got my eye on Denbigh but don't really want to travel all that way just for one site

Pics as promised...
 

As I mentioned before, we paid a far too short vist a few weeks ago. Here's four shots including the monstrous sequoia...
We will be returning soon with a whole day to spare(including time to see ROE)
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