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We have two double en-suite bedroms and one single room

Guests have a choice of two centrally-heated, en-suite bedrooms on the first floor, both of which look east and catch the morning sun. The Oak bedroom has a particularly luxurious en suite bathroom with under-floor lighting and a separate walk-in shower. The Pine bedroom has a lovely light blue en-suite bathroom with a shower-bath. Both rooms have satellite television, a hair dryer and tea or coffee-making facilities.There's also a third, smaller bedroom with a three-quarter size bed and a wash basin. This does not have its own bathroom so would need to share with one of the main bedrooms via a door off the landing so we often use this room for children or for a single elderly relative.

Oak Bathroom Oak Bedroom

Pine Bathroom Pine Bedroom

Relaxing in the Living Room

Guests have exclusive use of the living room in the evening. If it's chilly we'll light the log burner in the inglenook which makes it incredibly comfy. We have a mountain of books for you to look through, including quite a few on local fact and fable, and a trunk of board games. Alternatively, if you bring your Ipod/MP3 player with you, just plug it into the stereo, turn the lights down and drift away. We deliberately have no TV in this room. There's a computer for the use of guests in an alcove, and wi-fi for your own laptop.

Breakfast Room

Tuck into into bacon and free-range eggs, wash them down with a pot of tea or coffee, then finish off with toast and marmalade. This is a real pleasure in our breakfast room with its splendid circular oak table. On a sunny morning the sun streams into this room. If it's a cold morning we'll light the open fire at breakfast time. We also keep a stock of leaflets here on places to visit and things to do.

History

Well House is so-called because there is a well in the cellar, although it's concreted over now and opening it up presents a challenging project for an energetic future owner! One theory is that Chapel Lawn was originally used as a small military outpost of Clun Castle to provide advance warning of border raids by marauders from Wales. The site may have been chosen because there were three wells here which enabled troops to withstand a small-scale siege until help arrived. No firm record of this exists but the field across the river was once known as The Well Piece so there may be some truth in the tale. The main structure of the house is a solid, stone, former farm-house, typical of the area, but improved over the years by a succession of owners, including the local squire in the 19th Century who, it is said, lost both it and the surrounding land through a weakness for fast horses and expensive women, or maybe it was fast women and expensive horses? It was a dairy farm until the mid 1960s. Thought to have been built in three phases, the first phase is at the rear which contains our living room and was possibly an agricultural building of some sort before it became a dwelling. According to markings on a large oak beam it dates from 1714, although a house detective has said that this is only graffiti and the beam is older than that so the building may be as well. We still have the original salting stone for when animals were slaughtered and butchered on the premises (but we do cater for vegetarians!) and one of the original walls has a patch of damp where the salt from the curing process has penetrated the stone and soaks water up from below. The second phase now houses the front and back kitchens and is of no particular interest other than that it enables the house to boast a 'cat-slide' roof so typical of houses in this area. The third and final phase, which houses the guest accommodation, was built some time in the early 19th Century. From the front its symmetrical structure hides the third floor from view, our sleeping quarters, which were probably used by the farm workers and servants.