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• Built in the 1870's for the 3rd Marquess of Bute by architect William Burges as a "companion" to Bute's main home at Cardiff Castle
• Burges died in 1881 before completing the Castle so his colleagues completed his plans
• Burges meant it to resemble a medieval Welsh castle
• Conical towers, "needle-sharp" turrets, working portcullis and drawbridge
• The "fabled home of the world's wealthiest man"
• Reminiscent of the Bavarian countryside and Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" and "Victorian dream of the Middle Ages"
• Interior decor: Aesop Fable walls, wood carved ceilings, bird and animal moldings around doors, carved furnishings and fireplaces
• Views of the gorge in the Taff Valley