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Best country house hotels in South Wales
Featured Hotels with Special Offers
Ty Mawr
Brechfa, Carmarthenshire
'Winter Escape' Special Offer
A 17th-century country house on the edge of Brechfa Forest receives high praise for the warmth of the welcome, its ambience and top-notch, locally sourced food.
Penally Abbey
Tenby, Pembrokeshire
Three Nights for the Price of Two Special Offer
There are sublime sea views from this hilltop Gothic beauty, run by a dedicated and creative family, with elegant bedrooms and gourmet dining by candlelight.
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Mansion House Llansteffan
Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire
Overlooking the Tywi estuary, this contemporary restaurant with rooms in a restored Georgian mansion is rated by readers for its hospitality, food and accommodation.

Llanthony Priory Hotel
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
New owners Annabel and Jamie Windsor-Medley have refreshed the simple but historic bedrooms at this unlikely pub, which occupies the original prior's quarters for a 12th-century Augustinian Priory, serving meals in the Cellar Bar, and making plans for dark-sky events and theatre in the grounds against the backdrop of evocative ruins and the Black Mountains.

Crug Glas
St Davids, Pembrokeshire
At the heart of a working farm, this Georgian farmhouse hotel and wedding venue with a hairdressing salon in the grounds offers highly individual bedrooms and food cooked with flair.

Grove of Narberth
Narberth, Pembrokeshire
Down a tree-lined drive, amid meadows and mature garden, this romantic and secluded Georgian country house has cosseting bedrooms with a modern touch, suites in cottage annexes, two with a glass-box lounge, and both a fine-dining restaurant and a brasserie.

Penrhiw Priory
St Davids, Pembrokeshire
In landscaped gardens, with woodland path, river and meadow, this Victorian Tudorbethan rectory has modern interiors, dramatic abstract artworks inspired by the local landscapes, holistic treatments, Qi Gong meditation instruction, and complimentary transfer to restaurant Blas at sister hotel Twr y Felin.

The Old Vicarage B&B
Moylegrove, Pembrokeshire
There is nothing fusty about Meg and Jaap van Soest's B&B, an Edwardian vicarage with views to the sea which makes a perfect base for walking the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. It has smart house bedrooms and birch huts in an acre of garden, where the hosts serve a locally sourced breakfast with home-baked bread.














