What is recorded here

Longford Castle is a triangular Elizabethan house on the River Avon where Swedish bride Helena Snakenborg and Thomas Gorges built three towers for the Holy Ghost before Spanish Armada wreck gold completed the walls. Later Radnor earls kept rebuilding it, destroying one tower and adding others until the modest castle became a hexagonal palace that amused or offended every guest who walked its green avenues. The house still stands as a grade one landmark, preserving both the original divine geometry and the later earlish desire to make the valley bigger.

The National Heritage List for England records Longford Castle as a registered park or garden at Grade II*. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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