A Victorian mock-Tudor fishing lodge in wooded grounds on the River Irfon is today a spa hotel and foodie destination with a country house ambience and views to the Cambrian mountains.

A tree-lined drive leads to this 17th-century Wye Valley mansion, remodelled in 1912, replete with country-house comforts, important artworks, and a well-regarded fine-dining restaurant.

Bedrooms are spread between properties in Clough Williams-Ellis’s extraordinary Italianate resort village, but this hotel centres on a Victorian mansion with Art Deco bar and fine-dining restaurant.

Huddled below wooded hills, beside a stone bridge over the River Monnow, this whitewashed former 17th-century coaching inn is delightfully at ease in the landscape.

Behind the ornate stucco façade of a Victorian industrialist’s summer villa, Gaenor Loftus and Sam Nayar have created a very un-Victorian B&B with highly individual bedrooms.

A 19th-century Italianate villa in 14-acre grounds, with views across the gently rolling Teifi valley, is today a hotel and popular wedding venue with an in-house beauty parlour and romance in its very fabric.

High above the town, a modern hotel with ‘exceptional’ seascapes that are as restorative, perhaps, as the calm that washes over guests in the award-winning spa.

A foodie destination and family-run hotel, this enchanting Gothic house stands above gardens tumbling to the sea, with interiors created by the designer hostess, calming bedrooms, marble bathrooms, and lovely views.

In a hillside glade, this once-derelict country house has been beautifully made over, with attention to guests’ comfort, real fires, good textiles, fine dining restaurant and simpler artisan fare.

On the edge of Snowdonia national park, this neo-Jacobean Victorian pile (Relais & Chateaux) stands in 'attractive grounds, more wild than ornamental, and full of rabbits’, bordered by the River Dee

It’s not big on modern luxury, but you can find absolute peace and natural beauty here in the prior’s quarters, beside the picturesque ruins of an Augustinian priory under the Black Mountains.

Overlooking the Tywi estuary, this contemporary restaurant-with-rooms in a restored Georgian mansion is enjoyed for its ‘really lovely hospitality, food and accommodation.’

A 12th-century castle on a rocky outcrop is the unlikely setting for this smart contemporary B&B with ancient features, modern luxuries and free transfers to Blas restaurant at sister hotel Twr y Felin.

In gardens and parkland, this splendid, family-friendly Georgian manor house with many original features offers spacious bedrooms, sumptuous suites, and bistro fare.