No. in Party   2
Visited   December 2001

This is a funny place... but one that we liked a lot -, despite the fact you share the house with a number of other ‘local inhabitants’. You cannot leave any food about or one or other of these fellows will have it. Consequently, after vacating the house we remembered a dish of cauliflower cheese that had been left in the oven accidentally.  I can just hear the disgusted comments of the housekeeper.

If there was a prize for the most uneven floors, this building would be a contender and the staircase is designed to get you up quickly.

The view from the front of the farmhouse stretches for miles over the rolling landscape, to the back, the hill climbs steeply but your reward at the top is the Harp pub. It seems as though the pub has had a bit of a chequered past but at the time of our stay it was going great guns.

The country around Radnorshire is well worth exploring. There are several small market towns, all with cafes, pubs and other eateries.  There’s a kind of relaxed feeling about the area.

Some good walking on parts of Offa’s Dyke and the hills all around. Read ‘On the Black Hill’ by Bruce Chatwin while you are there (it’s on the bookshelf) - you’ll feel like you’re in it. The other famous local literary work is Kilvert’s Diary, a very atmospheric and nostalgic work.