With extensive views over the Tywi estuary, David and Wendy Beaney’s Georgian restaurant-with-rooms has brought ‘stylish minimalism down to a fine art’. A tasteful recent refurbishment kept many original features: a marble-tiled entrance hall, grand staircase, stained glass, ornate plasterwork. Guide inspectors in 2018 received a ‘warm, polite welcome’, and were offered help with luggage to a ‘large, comfortable bedroom with a capacious bathroom containing an efficient shower’. Eaves bedrooms lie up narrow stairs. All rooms have countryside or estuary views, home-made treats, luxury Welsh toiletries, bathrobes. Paul Owen’s locally sourced seasonal menu was ‘acceptably cooked, promptly served’ in the garden-facing restaurant. Breakfast brings ‘good fruit compote, first-rate tea, perfectly cooked scrambled eggs’. Drawbacks: ‘repetitive muzak’, slightly stark lighting.