Accommodation
Description:
A Ryder Cup 2010 coaching inn with adjoining B&B.
The only inn and B&B in Brecon with off-road parking, with riverside and castle beer gardens and with fantastic mountain views.
With the tower and walls of Brecon Castle located in its gardens, Brecon Castle Hotel is a coaching inn of great charm and character.
It first opened in the late eighteenth century, becoming the first hotel in Wales in the first decade of the nineteenth century.
It enjoys the best of both worlds being located in private grounds on a prominent hill in the centre of Georgian Brecon town but with beautiful views over the river Usk and up to the Brecon Beacon mountains.
Privately owned and family run, it combines a friendly atmosphere with efficient service and excellent, locally-sourced food in its restaurant, brasserie and bar.
Food is served all-day, every day.
Off-road parking for guests.
All bedrooms are ensuite and equipped with cable TV, film-on-demand, broadband access, tea/coffee making facilities, minibars, radio and direct dial telephone.
There is WiFi in all the public areas.
Dogs are allowed in several of the bedrooms and on leads in the pub and beer gardens.
Two miles from Cradoc golf course (Welsh golf course of the year 2005).
Falconry, Golf, fishing, mountain riding and walking holidays and historical castle and monastery tours organised from the hotel.
Extensive conference and wedding facilities.
Disabled access and disabled bedrooms.
Hearing T-loops for meetings and bedrooms.
Collection can be organised to and from all major UK airports and railway stations.
Fifteen minutes drive to Builth Wells (Royal Welsh Show), Hay on Wye (Literary Festival), Llandovery (Welsh Rally) and Abergavenny (Food Festival).
Please enquire about hiring the hotel's own 2+ berth canal boat on the Brecon canal.
Brecon Castle Hotel is the oldest hotel in Wales (as opposed to Coaching Inn), having been opened in 1809 by Sir Charles Morgan of Tredegar Park in his family's former summer residence. It was regularly frequented by Augustus John, George Bernard Shaw, and Lloyd George. The building itself has a Georgian facade but is actually 900 years old and forms part of the adjoining Norman Brecon Castle which was built by the brother of William the Conqueror, Bernard de Newmarche. That early castle was the first stone built Norman Marcher castle in Wales and was instrumental in the subjugation of the Welsh by the Normans. For the next 600 years it was one of the strongest, richest and most strategic castles in the country. Together with Chepstow Castle it has the only 3-story Great Hall in Wales. It was besieged three times by the Welsh and Llewellyn The Last King of Wales and for some years it became a Welsh Castle passing to Llewellyn the Last and then to his brother. Between then and the Civil war it played host to nearly every king and queen of England. A plot hatched in Brecon Castle was successful in bringing the Welsh nobleman Henry Tudor to the throne of England as Henry VII. The powerful Dukes of Buckingham were the richest family in the land mostly thanks to their holding of Brecon Castle (which controlled a ring of castles extending down to Abergavenny and Caerphilly) and the rich sheep lands for wool. When Henry VII executed the last Duke of Buckingham he took the roof of the Great Hall of Brecon Castle to his palace in London. The castle last saw action in the English Civil War when it was visited by Charles I and besieged by the Parliamentary army. It still boasts a huge 900-year old tower, a great hall, curtain walls and an original medieval real tennis court. The castle adjoins the hotel and the hotel is built into the castle.
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