Cartref House

Cartref House was the home of the Wizarding noble House of Prince and was located in Pembrokeshire, Wales near St Anne's Head.

The house was built in 1516 and then renovated several times over the years. The last owner of Cartref was Roderick Prince, who left the house and the Prince's fortune to his grandson, Severus Snape.

History

 * "Cartref House, an old Tudor mansion with a lone tower was built almost on the edge of a cliff and surrounded by a well kept yet overgrown garden"
 * - Description of Cartref House

In 1516, the then current head of the House of Prince was Cornaith Prince, a friend of Henry VIII who had Cartref House built on the side of a cliff on his family's lands in Pembrokeshire Wales. The house was of Tudor design and had six bedrooms, three bathrooms, a drawing room, dining room, two living rooms, a ball room, a greenhouse and a tower on the North side of the manor. The most unique part of the manor was the Magically built two-story basement that house a large kitchen and pantry on the second floor and a storage/servant quarters on the first. Cornaith would often invite his noble friends (Wizard or Muggle) and the King round his lavish home for parties.

Cornaith's son, Severus Prince converted the first floor of the basement into a vast Potions Lab with every single thing a highly skilled Potions Master could dream of. Severus, upon his death, had a portrait of himself hung in the Lab so he could any decedents of his at work. In the 18th Century, Oswald Prince, a great lover of Hogwarts' moving portraits, installed a portrait gallery in the lone tower of Cartref House so that all members of the family could have a portrait hung after their deaths.

Severus Prince and many other members of the family have added top grade Protection Wards to the estate, specifically an Anti-Muggle Repelling Charm that rendered the house invisible to Muggles, placing 'Danger' signs all around the edge of the property. In fend off the more adventurous Muggle, a Charm was added that instantly made the daring Muggle think the place they were in was not worth it and they should just leave and find something more up to scratch.

Upon inheriting Cartref House from his deceased grandfather, Severus Snape updated the manor for the 20th Century, using his best friend Lily Evans-Potter's patented Television 'TV' Charm to install several Muggle televisions in the house so that he and his family could enjoy Muggle TV programmes.