article_snippet.sent: Businessman Kim Davies has admitted illegally altering Llanwenarth House by installing chandeliers and other gaudy modern touches .
article_snippet.sent: Davies, 60, initially denied five charges under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas)
article_snippet.sent: However, shortly before Businessman Kim Davies trial was scheduled to start at Newport Crown Court Businessman Kim Davies pleaded guilty to illegally altering Llanwenarth House, near Abergavenny in Monmouthshire.
article_snippet.sent: Businessman Kim Davies lawyer George Carter-Stephenson QC said: 'My client accepts that My client has got My client into a very difficult position by fighting this case. '
article_snippet.sent: Guilty: Davies, left, has changed My client plea over the home where Mrs Alexander, right, once stayed as a guest .
article_snippet.sent: Punishment: Davies could face a prison sentence for illegally altering Llanwenarth House, one of whose bedrooms is pictured .
article_snippet.sent: Davies also admitted offences relating to the property's Coach House and its courtyard - such as tearing up old cobblestones and putting down new flagstone paving.
article_snippet.sent: Planners prosecuted Davies when Planners saw the renovations, which cost more than £1million .
article_snippet.sent: Davies always admitted installing a new kitchen and bathrooms, but claimed the work falls outside the restrictions on listed buildings.
article_snippet.sent: Davies will be sentenced next month. 
article_snippet.sent: Penalties for changing a Grade II-listed Building without permission include a maximum 12-month prison sentence or an unlimited fine.
highlights_snippet.sent: Businessman Kim Davies has now pleaded guilty to breaking planning laws by altering the historic Grade II-listed home .
  