The River Monnow flows just in front of the door of Sarah Hudson’s former coaching inn and well-liked pub-with-rooms.

In a small town on the glorious Pembrokeshire coast, Ed and Lou Sykes run their 19th-century stone house as a smart restaurant-with-rooms, successfully blending character with cool contemporary design.

Described in 1811 as the 'respectable old house of Grove, embosomed in trees’, the ancient seat of the Poyer family is today a luxurious country house hotel, embosomed in verdant grounds.

In 'most beautiful surroundings' on a bluff overlooking the Teifi valley, this Victorian Italianate villa, designed by Thomas Talbot Bury, an associate of Pugin’s, is a very dog-friendly hotel and popular wedding venue.

Modern art and minimalist bedrooms rub shoulders with a Georgian windmill in Wales's first contemporary arts hotel, with views of the Pembrokeshire coast.

Rich in antiques, wood panelling and fine original features, this historic Victorian country house on the edge of Snowdonia national park stands in a woodland garden that stretches to the River Dee.

Seaside splendour comes to the fore at this modern hotel above Carmarthen Bay.

On a wooded headland overlooking the Tywi estuary, this contemporary restaurant-with-rooms is in a thoughtfully restored Georgian mansion as freshly inviting inside as out.

Foodies flock to Susan and Bryan Webb's restaurant-with-rooms with views over the Vale of Edeyrnion for good reason – Bryan has been cooking up a storm for 45 years and Susan is the consummate hostess.

The picturesque Wye valley is the setting for this 17th-century manor house that opened as a hotel in 1990 under the late Sir Bernard Ashley, of the Laura Ashley fashion and textiles empire.

Enveloping exotic woodland, sandy beaches and a riot of colour, Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis’s Italianate village on the edge of a tidal estuary is an architectural astonishment.