We mentioned in a blog post last week that we’ve recently moved house and business. So, what’s tempted us away from Todmorden?

Well, it’s this lovely old cottage in Ceredigion, mid-Wales.

Having spent 20 years in Yorkshire, we felt that a change of scenery would do us good.

We’d been on a few holidays here, so we knew we liked the area. And, by a whole string of chance meetings and coincidences, we had an offer accepted on this fabulous place.

It was formerly two cottages. One side was built in around 1840 – the other side is actually even older than that.

The house is full of original features – such as stone walls, slate flags, pottery tiles, wide wooden floorboards, exposed beams, wattle & daub walls, ladders to the bedrooms, pretty windows, Cardiganshire chimney hood and inset bread oven. As you can tell from the photos, there’s not a straight line or right angle in the place. It’s wonky and slopes back & forth…. but we love it for that!

We’ve also got a small veg plot, young fruit tree orchard, greenhouse and pretty garden with paths and seating areas. It’s just the thing for us. We hope to be here for many years – giving the house some TLC whilst retaining all those features we mentioned earlier. We’ll be able to potter round the garden when we need a break from the paint brush…. and of course run our business. It’s the perfect place for our cottage industry!

And Troed Rhiw Haidd? Well, it’s the original house name – and it means ‘Foot of the Slope of Barley’.