Trehilyn Isaf, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Set in seventy acres of farmland with fine sea views (from the land, not the house), and restored by BBC's Griff Rhys Jones and the subject of the popular BBC 4 TV series 'A Pembrokeshire Farm', Trehilyn is among the best self-catering cottages in the UK. You can expect a genuinely stylish, yet sensitively restored interior with real attention to detail: Trehilyn was even selected by VisitWales as representing the best quality in Wales.

Managed by award-winning agency Under the Thatch, Trehilyn Isaf is about a mile inland from the most dramatic section of the Pembrokeshire coast.

Features:

• Kitchen - well equipped with excellent quality appliances (Bosch dishwasher, microwave etc). Access to rear gardens - one of four doors to the property (two front, two rear), so you are never far from the wonderful outside space and fields. Good views.
• Cegin Fawr - traditional ingle-nook room with dining area - large country table sits 8 easily. Dresser etc.
• Lounge with contemporary woodburner, and direct access to front and rear gardens. First basket of logs supplied. digital LCD TV & DVD player. Good quality and comfortable sofa and tub chairs, stairs up to croglofft over.
• Bathroom and toilet to ground floor (no shower). Bath that fills fast. Like most rooms this enjoys views over open fields.
• Small 'Utility' area with washing machine and dryer.
• Master bedroom (up steep stairs, gated at top), double bed (great mattress) etc with en-suite shower-room off (chrome heated towel rail etc). Large shower cubicle.
• Croglofft bedroom (up steep stairs, gated at top, low headroom in parts) - best suited to kids, this has two good single beds, and overlooks the main lounge via balcony. Good quality mattresses.
• Plenty of outside space for you/ the kids/ the dog to run about in! Garden furniture in rear garden, access over 70 acres (keep dog on lead around sheep).
• Centrally-heated throughout (Carbon Neutral eco-heating system), with underfloor heating included in price.
• Note that there are steep open-tread stairs up to both bedrooms (gated at top), so this cottage won't be suitable for the infirm.
• Well-behaved dogs are welcome (small surcharges apply) - the Pembrokeshire coastal footpath is nearby and perfect for pooches!

What makes it a green accommodation?

• Recycled woodchip central heating - virtually carbon neutral
• Only lime so breathable walls (no cement used)
• Only natural paints (no modern, toxic paints anywhere)
• Welsh sheepswool insulation (not fibreglass etc)
• Locally sourced materials (eg new Welsh slates etc)
• Private drainage
• Low-flush toilets

"The interior is one big picture book of Farrow and Ball rural elegance, with well lived in armchairs, dark red walls, fine oak desks and tables, elegant beds draped in woollen blankets and copious cushions, flagstone floors and a bathroom that was bigger than our London flat..."

Read Catherine's full review of Trehilyn Isaf

Named  by greentraveller's founder, Richard Hammond, in his list of the 'Top 15 Green Places to Stay in the UK' (published in the Observer newspaper).

"Trehilyn Isaf has carbon-neutral central heating and sheep's wool insulation, but as the owner, Greg Stevenson, says, there is 'not a hippy sniff about it...'"