The Ffrwd Suite
£1,450 / night
The Cadarn Hills · mid Wales
A Private Estate
in the Cadarn Hills
Seventeen rooms above the Ffrwd Valley. Four hundred acres of oak, water and weather, kept for a handful of guests at a time.
The House
Seventeen rooms.
Four hundred acres.
Foxwell was built in 1874 as a shooting lodge for the Vaughan family, who liked the valley enough never to quite leave it. We took the house on in 2019, kept the fireplaces, the crooked staircase and the walled kitchen garden, and let go of nearly everything else.
There are seventeen rooms. There will only ever be seventeen rooms. We are forty minutes from the nearest town, an hour and fifty from the nearest city, and a great deal further than that from anywhere loud.
More about Foxwell
1874
Built
A Vaughan family shooting lodge
17
Rooms
Never one more than seventeen
400
Acres
Private valley, river and oak wood
3
Rosettes
AA Rosettes at The Cellar
The Valley
Four hundred acres, and not a single sound out here that isn't weather.
The Days
Days at Foxwell,
shaped by the season
Nothing here is scheduled unless you ask for it to be. Five things we do properly, and a valley that does the rest.
All experiences01 The Cellar Dining Room
Seven courses, twenty covers, one long table of Welsh oak. Rhian Morgan cooks whatever the estate and the coast have given her that morning: sewin, salt-marsh lamb, whatever the hedgerow is doing.
Read more02 The Bathhouse & Cold Spring
A slate plunge pool cut into the old dairy, a wood-fired sauna up at the treeline, and a spring below the ash trees that has never once been warm.
Read more03 Field & River
Fly-fishing the Ffrwd with Tom, who has kept this river for nineteen years. Or three hundred acres of oak wood, a borrowed pair of boots and no particular route through it.
Read more04 The Library Bar
Eleven hundred books, a fire lit at four, and a bar built almost entirely from Welsh spirits: Cadarn, Glyn Aur, and a gin distilled two valleys over by a man we know.
Read more05 The House, Entirely
Take Foxwell whole: seventeen rooms, both dining rooms, the staff, the cars, the valley and the weather it brings. Eleven weekends a year, and they go early.
Read moreRooms & Suites
Seventeen rooms, no two alike, every one of them facing the valley
Beds made up in Welsh wool, baths deep enough to lose an afternoon in, and windows that open onto four hundred acres of nothing much happening. Rates include dinner, breakfast and the run of the estate.
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