Nether Skyborry


Nether Skyborry is a Grade 2 listed country house and lies within the parish of Llanfair Waterdine, South Shropshire.
The house has ancient origins; the original, smaller house, was built on part of the footprint of a 16th-century monastic building. Nether Skyborry was extended, impressively, in the late 18th/early 19th century and once had seven bedrooms but, over the years, these have been reduced to a more manageable number. Nevertheless, the house still boasts no less than 13 chimneys!
There are four other houses close by forming a small hamlet.
The Welsh border lies very close - the River Teme runs to the south of the hamlet. The Welsh border is just on the other side of the river.
The name "Skyborry" is an anglicisation of the Welsh for barn, ysgubor. "Nether" is English and means near or under. The hamlet is downstream of the other hamlet with the Skyborry place name slope of the Teme valley.