Penrhiw House, ABERCYCH, Boncath, Pembrokeshire, SA37 0HB

£235,000. Open to offers

We love our house and are only leaving because, after illness, we want to be closer to our family. Colin has a successful reflexology business here and is happy to pass on his client list to any interested new owner.

Penrhiw House (pronounced Penroo and meaning top of the hill) is unusual because it is upside down (lounge upstairs, master bedroom downstairs) and back to front (main entrance is the back).

The house is detached and almost invisible from the road, but is easy to find. (Important for clients.) At the moment the surrounding hedges are high as we like our privacy.

The parking area for two cars has steps and slope leading into the garden. The first entrance reached leads to Colin’s treatment room. It has patio doors and a low step made from a huge slab of oak. Walk past that and you come to the rear porch and then into a large wide hall (18’7” x 7’6”). On the left side two doors lead to the shower room and master bedroom. On the right is a door to the kitchen. In front are the open plan stairs and a glazed door into the front porch which has a large cupboard with electricity meter, clothes rail and lots of storage. If you had climbed the steep but pretty slate steps, crossed stepping stones over the lawn and entered via the front door this is where you would end up.

The front porch, hall and main bedroom all have parquet flooring. All the ceilings downstairs (apart from the treatment room) are beamed with the wooden floorboards from upstairs being the ceilings downstairs. This is typically Welsh.

The cloakroom/shower room has a washbasin, toilet and shower.

The master bedroom is 16’9” x 10’6”, has a window overlooking the front garden, 6-door wardrobes (negotiable) and a door to the en-suite bathroom. This has bath, toilet and basin and the colour scheme matches the bedroom.

The kitchen’s heart is the bright red oil fired AGA. The units are in wood, the sink and drainer white ceramic. There is a window either end of the kitchen and plenty of space for the dining table. The room measures 23’7” x 10’.

A low door leads through a thick wall from the kitchen into the treatment room. This could also be used as a dining room, study or snug and measures 10’8” x 8’5”. A Velux window in the sloping ceiling and the patio doors ensure plenty of light. The floor is tiled to match the kitchen.  

Upstairs. The lounge has two windows overlooking the back garden and two looking out over the Cych Valley. There is an opening to the chimney for a log burner. The ceiling is lower and not beamed. The floor is polished boards and the lounge measures just over 23’7” x 19’. Most of one wall is taken up by bookshelves which are craftsman made and of solid wood, as is the rail around the stairs.

Two rooms lead directly from the lounge. One is currently a guest room holding two single beds. It has a built in cupboard with shelves and hanging rail and a window overlooking the garden. 12’ 5” x 9’10”

The other room is a study. 8’x 9’10”. Plenty of space for a single bed. It holds a large, airing cupboard.

The garden overflows with shrubs and flowers. There’s very little remaining space in which to plant anything, apart from in the vegetable patch.

The front garden has a lawn, deep border, arbour with roses growing over it and steps leading to the ‘wild’ garden. A slate path slopes up this side of the house past rhododendrons and azaleas. In Spring it is white over with snowdrops.

Another path leads along the other side of the house, past a water butt and the thick hedge of fir, beech, fuchsia, quince and clematis.

Across the back of the house is a concreted area with a picnic table. From here two flights of steps lead to the ‘upstairs’ garden. One flight of pretty slate steps twists up to the top corner where there is a lawn and lots of colourful shrubs and wild oregano. A path leads past the vegetable plot to the other steps, the ‘wild’ garden, green house with fantastic grape vine, stone potting shed and plenty of little hiding places to sit in the sun or shade.

Running the length of one side of the house is a long shed, divided into three. One part holds the oil tank, another the boiler. Loads of storage space and workbenches here.

The entire house was double glazed in January 2007 and painted externally in 2006. The AGA which also provides the hot water, and oil-fired boiler for the central heating have been serviced each year.

Abercych is in North Pembrokeshire. There is a post office in the village, open for 2 hours on Mondays and Thursdays. There are two pubs and a village hall. The nearest shop is at Cenarth (approx 2 miles). We’ve watched salmon leaping the waterfalls there. Schools in Cenarth and Newcastle Emlyn. The Cych Valley is an area of outstanding natural beauty and there are many walks. The nearest beach, Poppit Sands is approx 7 miles away.

We pay rates monthly. 10 months per year at £100 per month.

Water is metered and currently costs approx. £26 per month. 

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