Huddled below wooded hills, beside a stone bridge over the River Monnow, this whitewashed former 17th-century coaching inn serves delicious food and has great walks from the door to help you justify eating it.

It might not be as grand as its Isle of Wight namesake, but this Victorian house is now an extraordinarily opulent B&B, and guests have use of the spa and other facilities at big sister venture The Empire.

A 19th-century Italianate villa in 14-acre grounds, with 'breathtaking views' across the gently rolling Teifi valley, is today a hotel and popular wedding venue where polished wood floors, deep armchairs and soothing paintwork is 'reminiscent of a long-ago time of gracious and easy living', writes our inspector.

A Victorian mock-Tudor fishing lodge in wooded grounds on the River Irfon is today a spa hotel and foodie destination with a country-house ambience and views to the Cambrian mountains.

There is nowhere in the world quite like Sir Clough Williams-Ellis's Italianate resort village, where hotel bedrooms are spread around various properties, centred on a Victorian mansion on wooded slopes above the sandy beaches of the Dwyryd estuary.

The former home of the late Sir Bernard Ashley and his wife, the designer Laura Ashley, dating from the 1600s and remodelled in Edwardian Lutenesque style, is replete with country-house comforts, and is home to Sir Bernard's significant art collection and to a fine-dining restaurant.

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.

Tucked away amid woodlands in the Wye valley, Chris and Kirsty Harrod's restaurant with rooms is lauded for Chris's extraordinary Michelin-starred menus of home-grown, locally produced and foraged ingredients, including a vegetarian tasting menu.

In wooded grounds on the edge of Snowdonia National Park, this neo-Jacobean Victorian mansion, which once hosted Winston Churchill (he'd have liked the whisky and cigar lounge), has lavish bedrooms and suites in high traditional style, an all-day bar menu and fine-dining restaurant.

Head chef Gareth Stevenson, who held a Michelin green star at Palé Hall, cooks taster menus, a set-price dinner and a traditional Sunday lunch at this revitalised restaurant with rooms, a Georgian house with views over the Vale of Edeyrnion.

There are magnificent views over Cardiff and across the sea to Devon from this hotel just north of the city, in a Georgian industrialist's mansion with the air of a country retreat, offering colourful contemporary bedrooms and modern cooking.

A 12th-century castle on a rocky outcrop is the unlikely setting for this smart contemporary B&B with ancient features, modern luxuries, artworks inspired by Welsh history and landscapes, panoramic vistas from a fourth-floor viewing platform, and free transfers to Blas restaurant at sister hotel Twr y Felin.

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.

Two 16th-century buildings above Edward I's formidable castle with views of sea and Snowdonia comprise this inn with seven well-presented bedrooms, an aviation-themed bar, and a restaurant serving modern British cooking with a Thai twist.

High above the town, a modern hotel with 'exceptional' seascapes that are as restorative, perhaps, as the calm that washes over guests in the award-winning spa.

There is a spirit of inclusiveness about this family friendly, dog friendly, singularly accessible clifftop hotel and spa, with a wide range of rooms and suites, from cheap and cheerful to luxury, and a menu to suit most tastes.

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.

Spruce, modern bedrooms, some with conservatory seating area, occupy a lake-view lodge and single-storey barns set around a courtyard at this family-run B&B in countryside three miles from Narberth, where guests can order charcuterie and pizzas to eat in their room or on the patio.

A former coaching inn in the heart of a market town, just a few few miles from the Wales Coast Path, this dog-friendly hotel has smart contemporary bedrooms, a choice of bars, restaurant and courtyard, where you can dine from a menu of small and large plates.