Sugar heiress Angela Lyle's former mansion Glaspant Manor goes on market for £1m

A manor home used as a hideaway by musicians together with Freddie Mercury, Black Sabbath and Genesis is up on the market for £1million.

The bands wrote and rehearsed on the the historic manor within the 1970s - utilizing its distant setting within the rolling Welsh hills for creative inspiration.

The studio at Glaspant Manor is the place Genesis made their ultimate album with Peter Gabriel The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway in 1974.

Within the early 70s Angela Lyle, heiress to the Tate & Lyle firm, moved to Glaspant, she had connections with the music world and transformed one of many outbuildings right into a rehearsal studio. 

A manor home used as a hideaway by musicians together with Freddie Mercury, Black Sabbath and Genesis is up on the market

The house's recording studio, which is now a vacation cottage throughout the manor grounds, was used all through the 1970s by the world's prime musicians together with Queen frontman Freddie Mercury and Black Sabbath

The manor home lounge: Glaspant, close to the village of Capel Iwan in Carmarthenshire, is now available on the market for £1.1million

Views: The bands wrote and rehearsed on the the historic manor within the 1970s - utilizing its distant setting for creative inspiration

The manor was owned by sugar heiress Angela Lyle who had the soundproofed studio constructed due to her love of rock music

On the time it was owned by sugar heiress Angela Lyle who had the soundproofed studio constructed due to her love of rock music.

Black Sabbath, Freddie Mercury, Hawkwind and Meat Loaf all stayed on the manor in the course of the 70s.

However she later bought the property and in recent times the historic grade-II listed home and accompanying cottages have been renovated and rented out as a 5 star vacation let.

Glaspant, close to the village of Capel Iwan in Carmarthenshire, is now available on the market for £1.1million

 A secret hideaway: Glaspant, close to the village of Capel Iwan in Carmarthenshire, is now available on the market for £1.1million

Cosy: In recent times the historic grade-II listed home and accompanying cottages have been renovated and rented out

Uncommon options: Black Sabbath, Freddie Mercury, Hawkwind and Meat Loaf all stayed on the manor in the course of the 70s

Proprietor Philippa Sibert, 62, mentioned: 'It's steeped in historical past and I believe it was standard with musicians who wished to get out of London and away from the followers for some time.

'Within the 1970s it was very distant and would have been good for bands rehearsing for albums or excursions.

'Angela had musicians come and keep along with her and she or he would prepare dinner for them and take care of them whereas they'd rehearse.

'Island Information then put in a cell recording studio for Genesis to report The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.' 

Angela Lyle was born in 1946 and studied artwork at Kingston Artwork Faculty, London. 

Her early profession was predominantly spent designing stage costumes for rock bands, which is how she ended up in Wales working the recording studio for a few years. 

On the identical time she designed garments and materials for Welsh Woollen Mills, and producing hand painted velvet and silk for my very own collections. 

She later returned to the artwork world and now paints.   

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