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Brecon Beacons Hotel exterior walls and gutter work at Craig y Nos Castle

Restoration
Our access platfiorm can reach most places, including to the top of the clock tower
Chairlift inspection of new Conservatory roof prior to installation of new guttering
Access Platform inspection of the Clock tower which will is due some restoration work on the roof supports
Laying the patio paths around the side and back of the theatre at Craig y Nos Castle
Laying the patio and paths around the side of the theatre at Craig y Nos Castle in Brecon Beacons
Newly installed rear terrace behind theatre at Craig y Nos Castle
Bore hole for Craig y Nos Castle's water supply being drilled in the lower gardens beside the river Tawe

In the pictures above: The Chairlift comes in handy for roofwork on the Conservatory and on the Clocktower above. Also see our borehole being drilled in the lower gardens.

Two sections of the front of the castle have been restored and the walls cleaned and sealed - see pictures of how a wall can collapse (below left) and another wall being rebuilt by our stonemason. One wall took three months to rebuild!

In lower pictures, see the paths, garden patio and gardens being landscaped around the rear of the theatre.

All the limestone walls of the castle absorb water and many walls need re-pointing, cleaning and sealing. In some cases the stonework and mullions around the windows needs to be replaced or repaired. Currently there is one mullioned window on the back terrace which is steadily disintegrating with each frost and will need replacing more urgently.

Many g
utters and windows on the main building badly need repairing and painting. We have also repainted the main function room in creams and gold.

The Fountain has been repaired, shot-blasted and repainted in black and gold and is now working properly. It often needs repainting though as the paint seems to peel off the sides every winter.

The Castle Clock, which had not worked for many years, was repaired at a cost of £23,000 and its Westminster Chimes can occasionally be heard across the valley. Currently the chimes are turned off as night time guests were complaining about the noise. A night time ‘retracting arm’ stops it chiming away all night.

The theatre
Patio and terraces behind the theatre were completed in 2005, at a cost of £21,000. This is a new, well lit patio and walkways which replaced a pile of earth, stones and builders rubble as shown in the pictures below.

The theatre gardens when we arrived did not exist - it was just piles of earth and no walkway around the castle, while the walled garden was bare of any plants.

Newly installed lanterns, in the gothic style of the castle, illuminate the roadside wall, courtyard, paths and patio at night. Ideal in summer for relaxing outside when the weather allows and very pleasant for residents in Theatre Ground Floor rooms who can walk straight out of their room on to the paths and patio.

Once water has got inside the stone wall, frozen and expanded in winter, the wall will disintegrate as shown
Wall rebuiilding beside Nurses Bliock where long section of old stone wall fell down
Laying the footpaths behind theatre, landscaping the grounds and recreating the walled gardens
The wall alongside the Nurses Block slowly gets rebuilt over a three month period
Landscaping and rolling the new gardens following building of new rear of theatre terrace and wall
Stone walls on rear patio built and newly pointed - protected against rain while the lime pointing hardens
The walled garden alongside the theatre soon after it was planted out - everything has grown substantially since
Gardens now landscaped, patio path laid, waiting on grass to be sown





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