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Bodysgallen Hall

📍 Conwy, Wales

4.5 ★★★★½ 1,800 reviews

About

Bodysgallen Hall is a manor house in Conwy county borough, north Wales, near the village of Llanrhos. Since 2008 the house has been owned by the National Trust. It is a Grade I listed building, currently used as a hotel. This listed historical building derives primarily from the 17th century, and has several later additions. Bodysgallen was constructed as a tower house in the Middle Ages to serve as defensive support for nearby Conwy Castle. According to tradition, the site of Bodysgallen was the 5th century AD stronghold of Cadwallon Lawhir, King of Gwynedd, who had wide-ranging exploits as far as Northumberland.

The core is a late 13th-century watchtower, probably built to support the defence of nearby Conwy Castle. First recorded in mid-14th century. The hall grew through the 16th-17th centuries around this tower, built from on-site quarried pink sandstone. Used as a recruiting ground for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in WWI. Now a luxury hotel owned by the National Trust with rare 17th-century parterre gardens and a 200-year-old stone pine.