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

On the glorious Pembrokeshire coast, Ed and Lou Sykes run their Georgian stone house as a smart restaurant-with-rooms, successfully blending character with cool contemporary design.

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.

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.

For centuries, this centrally located former coaching inn has been the hub of the fashionable market town.

Standing in graceful seclusion in wooded grounds, this Grade I listed manor house is a tranquil country retreat from the vibrant university town on the coast.

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.

In the gentle hills just north of the centre, this dog-friendly hotel takes in panoramic views over the city and the Severn estuary.

There’s a relaxed atmosphere at this modern hotel, in a quiet town within meandering reach, down green lanes and pathways, of the dramatic cliffs and secluded coves of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast.

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.

Anne Hathaway meets Heidi in the hybrid architecture of Pierre Mifsud’s former hunting and fishing lodge, beautifully situated in the foothills of Mynydd Epynt, with a trout lake and the River Irfon running through.

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.

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.

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

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.

At the top of one of the world’s steepest streets, this inn occupies two 16th-century buildings just above Edward I’s formidable castle (faint hearts, take the High Street route).

A tranquil retreat within easy walking distance of Britain’s smallest city, this late Victorian vicarage stands in acres of landscaped gardens, enveloped by woodland paths, a river and a wildflower meadow.

Rugged stone gives way to clean-cut, contemporary accommodation at this 12th-century Norman castle.

Close to the craggy cliffs and pebbled coves of the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path, Meg and Jaap van Soest’s modern B&B is in a hill-top Edwardian vicarage that has peered down the valley for well over a century.