Sker House is one of Wales most historic grade II listed buildings dating back to the 12th Centur. The house is known for its vivid and violent past, including a 16th Century carnage against Catholics, upon whose faith the house was founded. In 1170 the land was used as a monastic farm with the monks of Neath using Sker as a grange to support the abbey. It was remodelled in the 16th Century and as buildings were incorporated it became the Tudor manor we see today. Sker was immortalised in the novel The Maid of Sker by Victorian author R D Blackmore, who also penned Lorna Doone. It was based on the tale of Elizabeth Williams, who died of a broken heart after being locked in a room in the house by her father to prevent her from marrying her lover. Her spirit is said to haunt Sker, and so is the captain of a ship which was wrecked on Sker Point. The sounds of chains have also been heard, while when workmen were restoring the house they encountered Poltergeist activity where objects moved and lights flashed on and off.