If you want to get away from it all, really get away from it all, then a remote cottage nestled within the rugged landscape of a famous Welsh national park is surely your perfect, and totally peaceful, next property.
No roads, just single-track lanes. No neighbours, just sheep. No rooftops, just mountain tops and lakes.
This traditional, stone-built cottage can offer that tranquil life embedded within the heart of Snowdonia National Park, with the stunning beauty of nature cocooning the home and embracing it on all sides. It's rare to find such a peaceful and remote spot.
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Step out of the front door of the cottage, look out of the windows, or relax in peace in the garden and the superb, panoramic views over Llyn yr Oerfel lake, the surrounding countryside and the Rhinog mountains beyond will take your breath away.
There's no street lights to guide you to the property once you have left the main road between Blaenau Ffestiniog and Trawsfynydd. It's country lanes for some of the journey and then the access to this remote and isolate cottage's front door is a tiny, bumpy track.
Once you are there, step out of the car, take a deep breath of fresh mountain air and absorb, if you can, the staggering 360 degree that surrounds you during the day. At night, no light pollution will distract you from optimum star-gazing within the inky black sky.
But this home truly is an escape to the wilderness, as there's no mains electricity and no mains services. The estate agent states that the property has a private water supply, septic tank drainage, bottled gas fired generator and an oil fired Rayburn, so there are alternatives that mean you can live 'off-grid'.
The cottage is a charming abode, filled with characterful features that you would hope to find once you can disengage from that mesmerising view to explore inside.
Enter through the cutest of porches and into a vestibule area with slab floor and handy under the stairs store cupboard. Into the main living room that has exposed oak beams and ceiling, slab floor, painted stone walls and an inglenook so big a television can easily sit inside it as well as a large multi-fuel burner and seating area.
Into the dining area and the exposed beams, painted walls and slab floor continues, and there's ample room in here to seat the whole family and a traditional Welsh dresser that surely every traditional Welsh cottage should find space to accommodate.
The kitchen area has plenty of storage and workspace considering the property is a cute cottage, plus a four ring gas hob and an oil fired Rayburn stove supplying the domestic hot water and one radiator.
The ground floor also offers a utility area within a lean-to plus the bathroom that is another characterful space, with low ceiling and white washed walls and blue accent paint giving the space its charm as well as maybe surprisingly fitting in a full-size bath.
Up the stairs to two double bedrooms that are nestled within the roof space, meaning a cosy ambience is guaranteed, delightfully assisted by the exposed beams and rafters above your head - utterly charming.
Outside, as well as the expansive views that make you think you own half of Snowdonia to the distant horizon in all directions, what actually comes with the cottage is a small paddock, a good-sized front garden and a terrace that's almost as characterful as the house. There's also an attached small barn that houses a coal shed and the bottled gas fired generator.
This bonus space could of course be renovated and transformed into part of the main cottage or even a separate, self-contained studio cottage, with mezzanine bedroom tucked under the roof beams - subject to planning permission, budget and overcoming any potential access challenges.
There is the chance to put your own interior design stamp on this cottage in the national park, making it your own happy place with no fast and furious modern living demands or urban additions or distractions to disturb your peace. But you may need to check where the nearest B&Q store is located if you fancy a weekend of painting, or in fact, will they even deliver to this address if you order online?
If this cottage is a bit too remote for you, then there are so many beautiful homes on offer in equally stunning locations, such a charming, former farmhouse in the Wye Valley area of outstanding natural beauty; find out more about that gorgeous property here.
And if you're wandering and worried about getting that large removal lorry up that winding and country track to the cottage, it might be a relief to discover that, according to the estate agent, all the furniture and contents are included in the sale.
The remote cottage that gets you the peaceful life you might have always dreamt about is for sale for offers in the region of £249,000 with estate agent Tom Parry & Co, call the Blaenau Ffestiniog branch on 01766 830126 to find out more. And to make sure you don't miss any dream homes in the future, join the Amazing Welsh Homes newsletter.
