Welsh houses and gardens for St David's Day
Houses
The remote, enchanting Welsh home of cabin-maker Rollo Dunford Wood and ceramicist Freyja Lee
Rollo Dunford Wood and Freyja Lee's family home in Wales is an enchanted place, where she crafts folklore-inspired ceramics and he restores wagons and builds cabins surrounded by the beautiful ancient countryside
Houses
A photographer's ancient longhouse in the Welsh hills
With a vision of a bohemian lifestyle in the Welsh hills, Julian Broad left London for this ancient longhouse, where he has stripped away modern additions to create more authentic interiors filled with eclectic objects and curios, many of which tell the story of his career as a portrait photographer
Houses
Our most popular house of 2024: a rare and remote 18th-century Carmarthenshire cottage restored to its authentic form
Dorian Bowen’s sensitive restoration of a dilapidated 18th-century hand-built rural farmstead acts as a living testimony to age-old Welsh architecture and simpler times
Houses
Jane Ormsby Gore's Welsh house is the epitome of bohemian country house style
At her home in a valley in North Wales, doyenne of bohemian country house style Jane Ormsby Gore has found the perfect expression for her delight in ‘the lovely, the strange and the simple’.
Houses
A deep respect for the past is evident in the London home and Welsh cottage of potter Steve Harrison
Ceramicist Steve Harrison works from pared-back studios in London and Wales, where minimal concessions to modern life create the conditions that ground him
Houses
An interior designer's Welsh cottage, inventively furnished with second-hand finds
When interior designer Lucinda Griffith fell for a cottage that took her back to her Welsh heritage but was almost beyond her means, she cleverly employed all the tricks of her trade to furnish it in a thrifty, inventive and charmingly inviting fashion
Traditional Country
Architect Craig Hamilton's farmhouse is a fine example of his trademark style
Architect Craig Hamilton's Welsh farmhouse is a fine example of his trademark modern classic style, combining buildings of various periods with a new, but appropriate, extension, and espousing his belief in the Arts and Crafts philosophy of integration between architecture and art
Historical Country Houses
Inside King Charles's Welsh home, as he gives up the property
King Charles's first Welsh home, adapted from a former model farm in Carmarthenshire, bears witness to his philosophy of sustainable building, with a structure traditionally made from existing and locally sourced materials, an ecologically sound heating system, and elegant interiors that harmonise perfectly with the architecture
Gardeners' own gardens
The romantic Welsh garden of Sarah Price
Clare Foster visits garden designer Sarah Price at her family house in Wales, where she is bringing a Victorian walled garden back to life
Country Gardens
A fairytale Black Mountains garden that responds to the wild landscape
Stretching across a deep, dark valley in the Black Mountains, the gardens at Nant y Bedd are a response to the rugged, wild landscape that surrounds this former forester's cottage
Welsh houses and gardens for St David's Day
In Snowdonia's harsh landscape, the fanciful charm of Plas Brondanw stands the test of time
At Plas Brondanw in Snowdonia, the former house of the architect Clough Williams-Ellis, the playful statuary and elaborate topiary of the Italianate garden stand out in stark relief in winter
Houses
A cosy cottage tucked under the peaks of the Brecon Beacons
After sensitively reconfiguring its interior to suit the needs of their family, the owners of this Welsh cottage have furnished it with an appealing mix of homely pieces gathered over the years
Gardens
A remarkable Welsh garden saved from ruin over a quarter of a century
With its beautifully tended formal gardens giving way to rocky slopes and woodland, Plas Cadnant on the Isle of Anglesey has a long-established feel. Yet it is only 25 years since Anthony Tavernor began his mission to rescue it from ruin, determinedly restoring and skilfully enhancing its earlier incarnation
Welsh houses and gardens for St David's Day
An understated stone cottage perched high above the wild Pembrokeshire coastline
Tasked with decorating a nineteenth-century stone cottage in Pembrokeshire, John McCall made use of an unusually creative method to conceive its understated and eclectic look.
Houses
A 15th-century farmhouse in Carmarthenshire filled with riotous colour
When interior designer Willa Lloyd moved to her husband’s family’s historic farmhouse in south Wales, she didn’t let half a millennium of history get in the way of a vivacious colour palette
Artists at home
The Welsh home of David Williams-Ellis, the sculptor behind the new D-Day memorial
Though figurative sculptor David Williams-Ellis lives and works in Oxfordshire, he is proud of his roots in Wales, where he has inherited a manor house on the Llŷn Peninsula backed by the mountains of Snowdonia.
Gardeners' own gardens
The heavenly Monmouthshire garden of Arne Maynard
House & Garden gardens editor Clare Foster visits the Monmouthshire garden of Arne Maynard, where he has developed a relaxed, romantic style and combined formal elements like a parterre with areas of barely tamed nature...
Houses to rent
The remarkable £4 million restoration of a cottage in Wales
Built in 1420 and recently acquired by the Landmark Trust, this remote Welsh house underwent a £4 million programme of restoration. The results are astonishing.