Design for life

Multi-award winning luxury glamping retreat is the star of the small screen!

Brook Cottage Shepherd Huts, an adults only glamping retreat near Pwllheli, recently featured in the new series of the BBC’s ‘Interior Design Masters’, hosted by comedian and Chattyman, Alan Carr.

Located on the glorious Llŷn Peninsula, near the border of

the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales, Brook Cottage Shepherd Huts offers a quiet rural retreat in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with uninterrupted far-reaching views to Yr Eifl (The Rivals) mountains.

“We fell in love with this beautiful area during a trip to Portmeirion in 2017,” explained co-owner Mark Barrow.

“Two years later and we found our dream home near Y Ffor, just outside Pwllheli, and knew it was the perfect location to 2021. It was a great opportunity not only for us, but to also put

realise our dream of creating a unique luxury retreat.”

Nestled within a wildflower meadow overlooking a private

lake, each hut has all the luxury of a five-star experience, the area on the map. We have five huts and they were down to

five designers by episode 5, so they each got a hut.”

“We started the build nearly two years ago”, added Jonathan,

while at the same time allowing guests to really switch off, relax and connect with nature. The multi-award winning retreat offers five traditional shepherd style huts, which

have been lovingly hand-crafted by co-owners Mark Barrow and Jonathan Gooders, both of whom have a background in “and when we heard the BBC were looking for a glamping site to use as a location for the new series, Mark contacted the production team, who came for a recce. We completed the build of all five huts, so they were ready for the designers to

come in and put their stamp on them.”

fine art.

Named after the wife and daughters of Llywelyn the Great (c. 1173 – 11 April 1240), King of Gwynedd and ruler of Wales, each hut comes complete with en suite shower room, double bed, fully fitted kitchen, tables and chairs (both inside and out) for

quiet, intimate dinners and a wood-burning stove to make those chilly evenings extra cosy.

Speaking about the popular BBCTV programme, Mark commented: “Filming took place at the beginning of August Though not everything went swimmingly, as Mark explains. “Unfortunately one of the designs didn’t work out, but that gave us the opportunity to create something unique from scratch.” n

The new series of ‘Interior Design Masters’ airs on BBC1 at 9pm on Wednesday evenings, and you can catch up with the episode featuring Brook Cottage Shepherd Huts on BBC iPlayer. To book a romantic stay just visit www.luxuryglampingwales.co.uk or call 01758 701551.

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