$1.64 Million Homes in Wales

Llanbedr | £1.25 million ($1.64 million)

A five-bedroom country estate on 2.3 acres in a Welsh hamlet

This five-bedroom, three-and-half-bath house with 18th-century origins and modern additions is located about a mile from the hamlet of Llanbedr, in the bucolic Grwyne Fawr valley, about 35 miles north of Cardiff’s city center.

While Llanbedr offers a historic church, village inn, community hall and bus stop, the town of Crickhowell, about 2.5 miles away, has a supermarket, restaurants, schools and other services. A handful of larger towns with extensive shopping and recreational facilities are nearby, including Abergavenny, Brecon, Monmouth and Hereford.

The Grwyne Fawr valley is located in the Black Mountains and is inside Brecon Beacons National Park, which offers activities including zip lining, boating, theater, a narrow gauge steamway and a cinema.

Size: 3,300 square feet

Price per square foot: $498

Indoors: The front door opens into an original part of the 18th-century house, now used as a snug with an impressive stone fireplace topped with a wooden beam mantel. A wood-burning stove sits on a raised hearth, and the ceiling has wood beams. Additions to the home were completed in 1964 and 1978; across the main hallway is a more contemporary living room with a fireplace. The living room is open to a garden room with picture windows and doors to a veranda. An archway in the living room leads to a study with built-in cupboards and bookshelves.

The fully equipped kitchen has wood-fronted cupboards and space for a kitchen table. The family room has a gas fireplace and doors to a side terrace.

Stairs rise from the main hallway to the first floor, where there are five bedrooms, two of which have en suite bathrooms. A third bathroom serves the other bedrooms. An office could be converted to a dressing room for one of the main bedrooms.