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Cwmbach, Newbridge-on-Wye, Builth Wells, Powys
LD2 3RT
The Drawing Room
- Style
- Dainty gastro-boutique
- Setting
- The rolling fields of Powys
Absolutely everything about the Drawing Room has been lovingly created in a style that’s timeless, tasteful and indulgent.
Need to know
- Rooms
- Three doubles.
- Rates
- £80–£100 a room a night, including breakfast and taxes.
- Check-out
- 11am, though this is flexible subject to availability; earliest check-in, 3pm.
- Facilities
- CD/DVD library. In rooms: flatscreen TV, CD/DVD player, Laura Ashley beds, Penhaligons toiletries.
- Children
- No children under 12.
- Also
- Non-smoking throughout. They have a lovely private dining area so it's popular with triple-daters, who book all three bedrooms and then enjoy their own private dinner party.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Three rooms all individually designed; we like Oliver, probably the sexiest thanks to a double bath with views of the countryside. Phoebe only has a shower, and Otis has Venetian glass furniture and a slipper bath.
- Packing tips
- Walking boots; a good book to curl up with by the fire; elasticated waistband as you’re bound to overeat.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Award-winning modern British cooking using Welsh produce – own-cured salmon with lemon and dill, rump of Welsh lamb with gratin potatoes – care of chef Colin Dawson. Breakfast includes fresh fruit, home-made muesli, scrambled egg with cured salmon and caviar, duck egg with wild mushrooms, and the full Welsh.
- Last orders
- Dinner is served till 9pm.
- Room service
- Drinks only, served in the rooms until 11pm.
- Hotel bar
- Drinks served in the lounge until 11pm.
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Local restaurants
The Stagg Inn at Titley near Kington (+44 (0)1544 230221; www.thestagg.co.uk) is a 40-minute drive just over the border in Herefordshire but is worth it for the real ales and local cider. It is also the first pub in the UK to gain a Michelin star. The Felin Fach Griffin (+44 (0)1874 620111), a former farmhouse due south of Builth Wells on the A470, serves earthy, flavoursome modern cuisine among contemporary wood, tiles and beams. In the direction of England, via Hay, the Bull's Head at Craswall (+44 (0)1981 510616) is a real pub serving up great food and local ales and ciders to locals and walkers alike. In Hay itself, the Old Black Lion on Lion Street (+44 (0)1497 820841) is a popular, part-ancient pub/restaurant. If you're heading back to the Midlands or northwest England, the Radnorshire Arms (+44 (0)1544 267406) in Presteigne is a priest-holey old property, great for gastro lunch, afternoon tea or morning coffee in this charming border town.Worth getting out of bed for
Elan Valley Dams is a stunning part of the world to drive or walk around. You can ride on a Harley Davidson (+44 (0)870 411 3541; www.ridersedge.co.uk) at the Royal Welsh Showground just three miles away. The farmers' market at Brecon (20 minutes away) is held every second Saturday of the month 10h–14h, where you can buy great local produce. Hay-on-Wye is a small village specialising in all types of books. The Cambrian and Black Mountains are within reach too.
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