Treowen was probably built in 1627 by William Jones after he inherited a fortune from his uncle, a London merchant. The money helped pay for what is a very large house by local standards. Not long afterwards the family decided that the rather austere look of their new mansion was not grand enough, so they added the beautiful storeyed porch on the south front with the Jones shield of arms and a gable embellished with strapwork. In the 1670's the family moved to Llanarth Court, near Abergavenny, which had by tradition been the residence of the eldest son. Treowen was let as a farmhouse until it was sold to the sitting tenant in 1945. ...