The Old Storehouse

Rooms, rates and booking

Rooms are sometimes not ready until 4pm but guests are welcome to arrive and drop off bags, use the loo and have a cup of coffee at any time. Equally, there is no set hour within reason to leave at the end of a stay.

The bedrooms

The two bedrooms (double and twin) are on the second floor, both with armchairs and sofas as well. The en suite bathrooms have baths and showers. In early December and mid- January you can watch the sun rise across the valley, lying in bed in the twin room with a cup of tea and it makes me smile simply recording this most wonderful natural event. Glorious. Because the Storehouse was built with no internal walls, to allow grain and wool to dry, sounds from bedrooms do carry despite our best efforts to soundproof the building. It's not ideal for frisky honeymoon couples.

Attic

There is also an attic up a stone stairway outside the house. Again, it has its own bathroom and also basic cooking facilities, and from the four poster bed there are lofty views to the hills. It is also home to swallows and bats from April to early September and the outside door stays open all the time, allowing freedom of passage. It's a unique experience, and surprisingly popular, but it is an attic with an open door and swallows do chatter when they wake up.

The conservatory

Downstairs, the conservatory where breakfast is eaten (old fashioned rather than Homes and Gardens) looks over the garden to the canal and hills. The refectory table can seat everyone staying, but breakfast may also be taken outside in the garden. It's a room simply for sitting and watching the birds, or reading, or – almost anything peaceful. The sitting room has a cast iron range, sofas, armchairs and an upright piano. A good place for a wet and wintry afternoon and evening.

Breakfast

Breakfast is when you want it. Eggs are home-grown and sausages, bacon and black pudding come from a miraculous Carmarthen butcher, in Brecon twice a week. Vegetarian and vegan alternatives are here too.

The house has secure bicycle storage and unsophisticated drying facilities.

Rates and booking

Bed and breakfast costs £60 a person a night. There is no single person supplement or a charge for dogs. Reservations can be made by telephone, letter or e mail, but if by the first method please remember to leave your telephone number. The phone here does not have a memory.

Reservations

Reservations can be made by telephone, letter or email.

01874 665 499
email oldstorehouse1001@gmail.com

Payment

No deposit is required and payment can be by cheque, bank transfer or cash. I'm afraid we don't take cards.

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