This little-known but handsome house has a rendered brick, south-west-facing front dating from the early nineteenth century. Of five bays and two storeys below a parapet, the central Tuscan doorcase is crowned by a pediment, giving a picture of perfect symmetry. Yet around the corner to the right, the return of the front is, in fact of three storeys and, together with part of the lower service wing, this forms a part of an earlier house on the site. The rear wing is of limestone rubble construction and further additions were made to it in 1895.

By that date, Pentrepant Hall had become a part of Brogyntyn (q.v.) following its purchase by the Harlech family in 1893. Prior to that, though, it had been a significant independent estate which, in 1873, when owned by G.H.W. Carew, totalled 1,181 acres.

In the sixteenth century, Pentrepant had been the seat of a branch of the Hanmer family of Lee in the parish of Hanmer and, prior to his death in 1629, the house was the seat of John Hanmer, Bishop of St Asaph. The family’s properties also included Ebnal Hall – a small early eighteenth-century house – and its land to the north of Gobowen. On the marriage in 1741 of the heiress, Mary Hanmer, to Henry Strudwyck, Pentrepant and Ebnal passed into that family.

The Strudwyck’s great-grandson, George Henry Warrington, married Mary daughter of John Carew of Antony in Cornwall in 1794 and, through this marriage, inherited the Carew’s Somerset estate of Crowcombe, taking the name of Carew and moving from Shropshire to Somerset.

For many years, Pentrepant was tenanted and, in 1837, members of the Myddelton family from Chirk Castle were in residence. In about 1850, the Rev. Gerald Carew went to live there for a short period and Bagshaw, in 1851, describes the house as ‘a handsome residence…elegantly furnished’. His tenure was, indeed short, since William Cathrall, in 1855, notes Colonel Frederick Hill as the tenant there to T.G.

Warrington Carew. The property was eventually inherited by Mary Carew, the wife of the Hon. R.C. Trollope, second son of the first Lord Kesteven, and she, in 1893, sold the estate to Lord Harlech.

Pentrepant served as an Auxiliary Hospital during the First World War.