The Somersets of Raglan lost their great castle in the Civil War and never went back to it. Troy House was one of the places they built instead, a big brick house down by the Trothy near its meeting with the Wye. It was completed in the 1680s, and the Great British Ghost Tour notes that it stands on the site of an earlier house belonging to Blanche Herbert, Lady Troy, of the Raglan family.
Two ghosts are recorded. The first is a coach and horses, heard rather than seen. The second is older in the telling: visitors in the early 19th century said they heard whispered conversations in rooms where no one was.
Up the lane towards Mitchel Troy Common, walkers at night have heard footsteps coming towards them and passing them by, without anyone there. The same source also lists a separate haunted-house story for the area, but gives no more detail.
The ghost stories are single-source traditions.
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