2 bed detached house for sale

Builth Wells, Powys LD2

Hafod-y-Blodau Cottage, a 2-bedroom holiday let with outstanding views across the Irfon Valley.

Situation & description
The Cefnllysgwynne Estate is situated just 3.4 miles from the market town of Builth Wells in mid-Wales. Occupying a prominent position within the Irfon Valley, the estate is easily accessible, whilst commanding a private and unique position with unrivalled views along the valley and offering a rare multi-faceted country estate with significant diversification opportunities.

The local market town of Builth Wells provides a wide range of amenities,
leisure facilities and supermarket to local and nearby residents, including a primary and secondary school, post office, church, convenience stores, sports facilities, public houses and of course the Royal Welsh Showground.

Transport links are excellent with both the A470 and A483 (2.9 miles) providing access to Llandrindod Wells to the north and Llandovery to the southwest.

The Cefnllysgwynne Estate provides significant amenity and lifestyle appeal and will be of interest to a wide range of agricultural, lifestyle, conservation, sporting, commercial and investment purchasers.

The estate comprises a 335.56 acres (135.80 hectares) mixed country estate with principal residence which would benefit from a scheme of refurbishment and renovation. Alternatively, subject to the necessary permissions, a total redevelopment of the property is entirely possible. The house is not listed.

The principal residence is of significant stature with views across the Irfon Valley. The house extends over three floors and commands an enviable position, with a myriad of historic features which will be of interest to many prospective purchasers. Private houses of this nature and calibre are rarely available on the market, especially unlisted, and with such significant scope for modernisation and refurbishment to create a substantial family dwelling in the most sought after location.

The secondary accommodation comprises a 2-bedroom cottage adjacent to the principal house offering excellent staff or additional family accommodation. In addition, a let 4-bedroom farmhouse and 2-bedroom holiday let, provide valuable income and are situated away from the principal house ensuring privacy whilst retaining a good, diversified estate makeup.

The woodland and forestry plantations across the estate, whilst unmanaged in recent years, provide scope for an incoming purchaser to benefit from future timber extraction with generous tax reliefs from timber sales. The woodland and forestry form the basis of what, until recently, was a family High Bird Shoot, but also with duck flighting and driving opportunities.

For a compact mid-Wales country estate, the sporting potential and existing sporting operations provide a significant draw and could be fully managed and enjoyed in hand or let on a more commercial basis with attractive income opportunities.

The river fishing on the Irfon has provided both the Vendors family and visiting anglers with great enjoyment over the years with trout, grayling and a small number of salmon, caught yearly, with additional coarse (chub and dace) fishing.

The Vendors hold rights to graze certain livestock over common land to the south of the estate. Such rights will be transferred to the incoming purchaser/s where possible. Further details available from the joint selling agents.

Lotting
The Estate is offered for sale as a whole or in up to 13 lots as briefly described below, and as identified on the lotting plan

Lot 3 – Hafod-y-Blodau Cottage, a 2-bedroom holiday let with outstanding views across the Irfon Valley
The two-storey 19th Century detached cottage is of stone construction, part rendered, under a slate roof. The cottage was converted to a very attractive and highly successful holiday let some years ago and offers privacy for visiting guests.

The ground floor comprises entrance porch, wc, fully fitted kitchen and sitting room with wood burning stove. The first floor comprises a large double bedroom, a smaller single bedroom, family bathroom and storeroom. Private water supply connected.

Land Type and Cropping History
The predictive Agricultural Land Classification map for Wales classifies the grassland predominantly as a mixture of grade 3a and 3b with a small area classified grade 4. Such classification shows a ‘good’ to ‘moderate’ soil grading with grade 4 described as poor-quality land.

According to Soilscape the soils to the north of the estate are described as freely draining slightly acid loamy soils. The soils across the steeper land to the south of the estate are described as freely draining acid loamy soils over rock.

All of the farmland is down to permanent grassland and is suited to livestock grazing and mowing in the most part. The land is let by way of two, one-year farm business tenancies.

Tenure, Possession and Method of Sale
The freehold of the property is for sale by private treaty, with vacant possession on completion (subject to the following agreements and all holdover requirements as detailed within these particulars).
1. Cefn Cottage: Occupation Contract
2. Pantyblodau: Occupation Contract
3. Grassland: One year Farm Business Tenancies expiring 30th September 2025
Please note: If the Estate is not sold as a whole, then the Vendors preference is to agree a sale of Lot 1 (independently or jointly with additional lots) prior to the sale of lots 2 – 13.

Rights of Way, Wayleaves, and Easements
A number of public rights of way and overhead electricity lines cross the estate.
The estate is sold subject to all rights of way, wayleaves, and easements whether or not they are defined in this brochure.
If the estate is sold in lots, then cross-rights and reservations will need to be reserved where required, for example for access, services and maintenance. We understand there are reservations in favour of third parties for water and drainage connections.

Plans and Boundaries
The plans within these particulars are based on Ordnance Survey data and provided for reference only. They are believed to be correct, but accuracy is not guaranteed. The purchaser shall be deemed to have full knowledge of all boundaries and the extent of ownership. Neither the Vendors nor the Vendor’s agents will be responsible for defining the boundaries or the ownership thereof.

Note: All areas, floor areas and dimensions stated are approximate and should not be relied upon. Potential purchasers are welcome to instruct an independent survey to verify these.

VAT
We understand the property has not been opted to tax and therefore VAT will not be chargeable in addition to the purchase price.

In the event that a sale of the property or any part thereof or any right to it becomes a chargeable supply for the purposes of VAT, such tax will be payable in addition to the sale price.

Mineral, Sporting, and Timber Rights
The sporting, mineral and timber rights will be transferred with the freehold title where owned.

Basic Payment Scheme and Sustainable Farming Incentive
The land has historically been registered for payments under the Basic Payment Scheme.

We are not aware of any environmental schemes affecting the land.

We are not aware of any woodland schemes currently affecting the woodland.

Holdover
The Vendors may require a period of holdover for Cefnllysgwynne House to remove contents depending on sale timing.,

Ingoing crop valuation
No ingoing crop valuation will be required.

Designations and Flood Risk
The River Irfon is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Part of the estate (principally lots 5,6,7 and 8) fall within flood zones 2 and 3.

Prospective purchasers are advised to take independent advice in respect of the sssi designation and/or flood zones if they so wish.

Local Authority
Powys County Council.

Fixtures and fittings
The carpets, curtains and all other fixtures and fittings, garden ornaments, stone troughs and statuary are excluded. Some may be available by separate negotiation. The inclusion or exclusion of any agricultural fixtures and fittings is to be discussed.

Services
The estate is served by a private spring fed water supply running south to north through the estate and serving third party properties.

A borehole has been installed on the land just to the south of the main residence's garden as a secondary supply which also supplies third party properties.

Mains electricity is connected to all residential dwellings and the principal residence benefits from a small 10kw solar array on the stable block roof.

Heating to the principal residence and Cefn Cottage is via a wood pellet biomass boiler (with rhi payments received and contracted to 2034). Current payments amount to circa. £12,000 per annum.

Heating to Hafod-y-Blodau is via electric storage heaters. Heating to Pantyblodau is via an oil-fired central heating system.

Most of the agricultural land benefits from in field water supplies from the private spring fed system.

Fibre optic broadband connections are available to all residences giving an estimated fastest data download speed of around 1800 Mbps (data taken from on 11/07/2025). Actual service availability at the property or speeds received may be different.

We understand that the property is likely to have current mobile coverage (data taken from on 11/07/2025). Please note that actual services available may be different depending on the particular circumstances, precise location and network outages.

Prospective Purchasers must satisfy themselves as to the availability of services and any future connections. If the land is sold in lots, then cross-rights and reservations will need to be reserved where required, for services. Services may need to be split and sub-meters installed. None of the services, appliances or electrical systems have been tested by the selling agents.

Solicitors
Wilsons Solicitors llp, Alexandra House, St Johns Street, Salisbury, SP1 2SB
fao Annie Wills
Tel: Viewings
Viewings are permitted strictly by prior appointment only through the joint selling agents, Fisher German LLP and J M Osborne.

Directions
From Builth Wells (Market Street), follow the A483 heading west before turning left onto Hospital Road. Head along Hospital Road for approximately 0.5 miles and then along the unnamed highway for a further 2.7 miles, before arriving at the access to Cefnllysgwynne House on your right-hand side.

Postcode – LD2 3HN

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