The Drawing Room
Style Dainty gastro-boutique
Setting The rolling fields of Powys
In the two tiny sage-green front rooms of The Drawing Room hotel, a crackling fire, traditional antiques and porcelain trinkets lend an elegant French atmosphere to this Welsh gem. A brass bedpan stuffed with new slippers suggests this is a place intended to relax. And the food is out of this world at this husband-and-wife-run establishment:she makes the pastries, breads and starters; he tends to the main courses. The bedrooms are très Elle Deco: Venetian glass, stylish fabrics, contemporary chintz wallpaper, roll-top baths.
Need to know
- Rooms Three doubles.
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Rates
Double rooms from $130.02 (£83), excluding tax at 20 per cent.
Prices have been converted from the hotel's local currency (£83), via XE.com, using today's exchange rate.
- More details Rates include breakfast. Please note that rooms are only available to guests dining at the Drawing Room, except by special arrangement.
- Facilities CD/DVD library. In rooms: flatscreen TV, CD/DVD player, Laura Ashley beds, Penhaligons toiletries.
- Check-out 11am, though this is flexible subject to availability; earliest check-in, 4pm. The house is not available to guests between midday and 4pm.
- Children No children under 12.
- Also Non-smoking throughout.
Food and drink at The Drawing Room
- 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.
The Drawing Room Cwmbach, Newbridge-on-Wye, Builth Wells,, Wales, LD2 3RT
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Afternoon tea with bara brith
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.
Also
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.
From the Guestbook…
Fantastic food, beautifully decorated and comfortable rooms with wonderful personal service. We couldn't have wished for more.
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