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26 bedroom country house
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Established & profitable holiday letting business
- Award winning 9 holiday letting cottages (rated by Visit Wales as 4* or 5*).
- Significant recent and historic investment by the owners
- Set in approximately 7.3 acres of grounds and gardens
- Indoor Swimming Pool, Sauna & Hot Tubs
- Set within the rural Welsh countryside three miles from the coastline.
- Award winning 4 & 5 Star accommodation
- Environmentally aware business
- 5* Trip Advisor Reviews
- Gym and Children's Soft Play Area
This highly attractive, growing, and profitable business, with accounts to support, offers a unique holiday experience, with 9 luxury and characterful self-catering holiday cottages and facilities that include: Private hot tubs, indoor leisure suite (swimming pool, sauna, gymnasium), young child’s soft play area with pool table, rustic play barn with a variety of games and activities including air hockey, table football, table tennis, built-in playhouses, slide, and toddler ride-on vehicles. Small animal petting area. Outside there is an adventure playground with swings for toddlers as well as older children, climbing equipment, and slides, and the opportunity to assist with feeding the rare breed sheep, pigs, donkeys, goats, and chickens.
Having undergone continuous reinvestment into the business throughout its history, Croft Farm now boasts wood-pellet biomass central heating, installed at a cost of £120,000, (with a Renewable Heating Incentive running until December 2035 at an index-linked annual return of approximately £7,500). This effectively runs heating and hot water to all the properties and the swimming pool. Four luxury Marquis hot tubs have been installed since 2015, and have significantly increased the 'out of season bookings. The development has had single 3-phase electricity installed and new consumer units to each property. Fire and safety lights have been installed on all properties and the swimming pool, whilst Fibre-optic broadband is available across the whole complex.
This is a really attractive opportunity for someone looking to run their own business, either remotely or living on site. Highly profitable businesses run to these exceptional standards are rare to the market. With 5 star Trip Advisor rating and award-winning 5 and 4 accommodation, it makes this a unique purchase.
LOCATION
Situated on the Ceredigion/ Pembrokeshire borders, this area is rated by National Geographic magazine experts as the second best coastline in the World. With 186 miles of magnificent and varied coastline and over 50 beaches, the area is a magnet for visitors all year round. The area benefits from local tourist hotspots such as the lively town of Cardigan, picturesque Newport, or peaceful St Dogmaels to visit and explore.
The property is approximately 3 miles from St Dogmaels which is a beautiful riverside village sitting just across the Teifi River from the market town of Cardigan which is also 3 miles away. It is steeped in history, with the ruins of the 12th century Abbey, offering a great venue in the summer for Shakespearean plays. The village also offers cafes and pubs, a local shop, and garage, places of worship, and a primary school. The popular sandy beach of Poppit Sands is only a short drive away. Nearby Cardigan town offers a range of amenities including; a Castle, a primary and secondary school, a further education college, major supermarkets and superstores, banks, several public houses, a swimming pool, leisure center, restaurants and coffee shops, and many local shops.
Rooms
TALAR AUR
A four bedroom detached house, one of the most recent conversions from a former farm building. Entered through the front porch the reversed level accommodation provides all four bedrooms on the ground floor. The airy upstairs living areas have rural countryside views towards the Preseli Hills. A glass panelled partition separates the kitchen/diner from the sitting room, which leads onto a balcony overlooking green fields, giving a greater sense of space. The property benefits from a log-burner and an exclusive garden with a private seating area. Sleeps 6 + 2 cots, This property also has planning for Residential Use - Matterport walkthrough available.
THE BARN
One of the first farm buildings that was renovated from being the winter home to the milking herd with individual cattle stalls! This cottage naturally has an abundance of character, with the rough plastered walls, original beams, and winding staircase to the loft bedroom. Younger guests love the upstairs ‘den’ with low ceilings and roof windows. Log burning stove on a slate hearth. Sleeps 7 + cot. Matterport walkthrough available.
THE DAIRY
A traditional Welsh stone and slate barn 5* luxury cottage. Character features include exposed original beams and rough plastered walls and a log-burner on a beautiful Welsh slate hearth. The open plan layout provides a living room, dining area and kitchen. with double doors opening onto the fenced patio.
The master bedroom and modern family bathroom are on the ground floor. The second bedroom is a twin room on the first floor tucked beneath the eaves and above the open plan living area - children love this den-like room. Sleeps 4 + Cot. Matterport walkthrough available.
THE GRANARY
this single-story detached cottage is the smallest but it boasts a private and secluded outdoor seating area. The open plan living room with kitchen/dining area has high ceilings with exposed beams and roughcast plaster walls giving lots of character within a modern conversion. One double and one single bedroom. Sleeps 3. Matterport walkthrough available.
THE STABLE
A detached traditional Welsh stone and slate cottage, with south-facing exterior and private decking overlooking the front garden, an open plan layout, a fully equipped kitchen, and a traditional log burner. The cottage has two bedrooms, a double bedroom, and a room with full-sized single bunk beds all on the ground floor. There is also a family bathroom with an over-the-bath shower. Sleeps 4 + Cot. Matterport walkthrough available.
THE HAYLOFT
A converted Hayloft with extensive rural countryside views, accessed by exterior slate steps, this very attractive first-floor apartment retains some original barn beams and an attractive window seat with views over the Welsh countryside. One double bedroom and one twin bedroom. Sleeps 4. Matterport walkthrough is available.
THE CARTWHEEL
This cottage used to be the repair workshop and storage for horse-drawn carts. Boasting a private garden with lawn to the front of the cottage. The Cartwheel front door opens into the country kitchen, with a 6-seater dining table. There is a log burner in the living room. Two bedrooms. Sleeps 4 + cot. Matterport walkthrough is available.
THE FARMHOUSE
The Farmhouse, a traditional slate and stone-built property, is the smaller wing of the original farmhouse, which has recently been refurbished to a high standard. This accommodation in this beautiful holiday home is almost entirely on the ground floor, except for the master bedroom with its en-suite bathroom. It has three bedrooms, to accommodate a family of up to six people, and there’s also room for a travel cot or two. The welcoming sitting room has a log-burner sitting beneath an oak inglenook on a Welsh slate hearth, and the charming character-filled kitchen has room for a dining table. Externally It has a small private garden, from where steps lead to the private hot tub, Sleeps 6 + Cot. Matterport walkthrough is available.
CROFT HOUSE
This is the largest wing of the former Welsh farmhouse. The layout of the six bedrooms gives a flexible appeal to this superbly comfortable holiday house, with its own touch of hygge-styling, making it ideal for both large group holidays and family celebrations. Croft House has a private garden as well as a Luxury Marquis hot tub with deeply massaging jets. Sleeps 12 +2 cots
(This property also was planned for Full Residential Use). Matterport walkthrough is available.
GYM AND CHILDREN'S SOFT PLAY AREA
The gym comprises a stepper, rowing machine, cycle, and multi -gym. The soft play area has giant soft shapes, perfect both for the budding builders and artistically creative minds. Conveniently, the pool table is here to encourage the dads to babysit.
INDOOR LEISURE SUITE
28' x 14' indoor heated swimming pool serviced by the bio-mass wood-pellet boiler, sauna, and changing facilities. The pool is currently hired for weekly swimming lessons at quieter guest times () providing an additional income source.
BIG PLAY BARN & PETS CORNER
Pets corner with hutches and feeding stations for guinea pigs and rabbits. Big play barn for under 8's with hand-built wooden Wendy House, Catriona and Evie’s shop, and Jack’s garage, with table tennis and air hockey for the older children and teens
OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
The adventure playground is a magnet for small people with a house, slides, rope nets, and monkey bars. Communal Bbq area, Be a farmer for a week experience feeding the animals and collecting the eggs for children of all ages.
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