Bryngwin: Country House, Cottage or Self-Catering accommodation in the foothills of Cadair Idris, Snowdonia

Choice of holiday accommodation in Southern Snowdonia amid some of the best hillwalking in Wales

		Contents
		-------Flats
		------Cottages
		-----History
		----Map
		---Activities
		--Surroundings
		-Essentials
		Bookings

THE TWO BRYNYGWIN FLATS
Flat 2 sleeps 9 or more 3 bedrooms(1 semi-divided)	Flat 3 sleeps 2/3 open plan room

Below L shows all but the youngest part of this Grade II listed building. Flat 1, the private and oldest part, is to the left. Flat 2 is to the right. (Flat 3 is shown in the next picture below this pair.)

Above R is the view from in front of the house looking back north west.

The house divides naturally into the three parts, the vertical divisions coming exactly where the additions were made over the years. Starting a floor up, yet with nobody living below, Flats 2 and 3 enjoy great views; and with their entrances opposite each other off the same landing, the two flats can easily be run together as one for a large group or an extended family.

BRYNYGWIN ISAF, FLAT 3

Looking over Flat 3 from the other (access) side of the house, with Flat 2 starting on the R. Between and beyond the garden's Scots pines is the skyline ridge that faces the famous Precipice Walk across the Mawddach valley where that river has emerged from the Coed y Brenin forest, soon to join Dolgellau's River Wnion and then flow to the sea between the majestic yet graceful mountain ridges that flank the 8-mile-long estuary. The windows of the kitchen (electric cooker) and bathroom (cast iron bath with electric shower) are toward the right of the picture, and the chimney is for the kitchen oil boiler (which heats two very large radiators in the main room as well as one in the passage), and for the open log fire which is designed to give convected as well as radiant heat. There can't be many places today where you can go to bed to the flickerings of a real fire!

Looking, in the only way anyone could, that is to say from up a ladder placed against a bank, into and out of Flat 3's living room / bedroom / diner to sweet - scented mock orange flowers and the magnolia robusta that thrives so in the garden.

A view from Flat 3's tall window through the Scots pine to Y Garn mountain-top. One of our many walksheets would guide you up there from the house - and back again another way!

Looking down Flat 3's 25' long main room, first one way, then the other:

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BRYNYGWIN ISAF, FLAT 2

This whole central section of the country house, with its large rooms and sleeping capacity, is ideal for groups, extended families or two families together. Its bedrooms are i) a double, ii) a double + single (+2 singles if needed), iii) a 4 singles (semi-divided), plus iv) living-room settee converts to a double. In addition it can let with Flat 3 across the landing, and that sleeps another two or three. Here is a picture of the living room with inviting 3-piece suite, large dining table, colour TV, centrally-heated radiator and option of open log fire.

On the same first floor as the living room (above left), kitchen (light and large with electric cooker, microwave oven, fridge plus freezer/fridge, table in centre with 4 chairs, and view down onto terrace and over garden as in last picture) and bathroom (twin-grip cast-iron bath with choice of mixer shower at one end or electric shower at the other), is the large centrally-heated double bedroom (above right).

Under this first floor there are only the boiler/drying room, utility rooms and passageways useful for safe and carefree parking of outdoor gear and bikes. No need to worry about noise travelling to or from anyone living below!

The top double+single bedroom looks down onto the garden (below left), about which "ideal for children" is the frequent comment. Ideal too for birds: over 60 species have been spotted in it since record-keeping began in 1990, with goshawks and hawfinches numbered among them. The bedroom also has another east-facing window inserted at a later date, and allows enjoyment, even as you lie in bed, of the 10-mile-distant Aran mountains near Bala (below right).

The high window looking onto the colourful azaleas, bluebells and rhododendrons with woodland above is one of the two windows belonging to the other top-floor room which has four single beds and is semi-divided.

This late winter picture was taken from Flat 2's kitchen. Without the arresting colours of spring or autumn, it focuses attention on the ridge called Bryniau Glo or Glowing Hills (they glow with heather). The ridge faces the famous Precipice Walk whose hill is at the top of the trees on the right of the picture. Between the two flows the River Mawddach fresh from the Coed y Brenin forest, and soon to join the River Wnion at the head of the glorious Mawddach Estuary.

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