The Felin Fach Griffin

Brothers Charles and Edmund Inkin keep a welcome in the vales at their relaxed, brick-red dining pub-with-rooms, amid sheep-grazed pastures just outside the Brecon Beacons national park. The style – as at sister properties The Gurnard’s Head, Zennor, and The Old Coastguard, Mousehole (see entries) – is one of casual chic, with blazing fires, squashy sofas, mismatched chairs and tables. You won’t find a TV in your bedrooms, but you will find Welsh blankets, a Roberts radio, cut flowers, home-made biscuits, fresh milk, local artwork and botanical toiletries. In clement weather you can eat outside on perhaps garden vegetable risotto or a seafood grill; later, have supper in the Library or Aga Room or, if your dog is with you, in the bar or Tack Room (dogs stay at the pub free of charge). A short, nightly-changing menu of vegetables from the kitchen garden, fish from Cornwall, local meat and game includes dishes such as halibut, broad bean, pine nut and hazelnut fricassée; farro risotto, or duck breast, sweet potato, beetroot. Shooting and salmon and trout fishing can be organised, and you can play golf at Llandrindod Wells, Cradoc or Kington.