Talk:The Gaer House

I think the final sentence, that The Gaer House is now The Gaer Inn, is incorrect The Gaer was a large house where Lansdowne Road now stands, which served as a Gwent College for Boys, a boarding school, in the 20th century. The Gaer Inn was previously known as Gaer-Fach and was a farmhouse (aerial view at ). Potentially there could have been two buildings called The Gaer and The Gaer House, but I think the evidence is that this article does not refer to the building that is now The Gaer Inn.

The map at shows Gaer-Fach, which is where The Gaer Inn is now, and also shows a large house where Lansdowne Road is now, with its drive opposite Cae Brynton Road.

The school is documented at, with pictures at.

There are lodges still remaining at either end of Gaer Road; they refer to Gaer Fach again but I think again that the lodges are for the house that became the boarding school: ,

Further evidence that The Gaer House is not Gaer Fach/The Gaer Inn: the 1901 Directory of Monmouthshire shows Charles D. Phillips (as named in this article) at The Gaer, and Henry Duckham at Gaer Fach. There is also an advertisement from 1898 placed by H Duckham of Gaer Fach for a man experienced with stock and horses to work on a grass farm (advert near bottom right of final advertisement section).

ACopeland195.147.194.190 (talk) 17:29, 20 May 2020 (UTC)