Bryn ElltydEco House

Bryn Elltyd Eco House is an independently run guest house on the edge of Tanygrisiau reservoir, just outside Blaenau Ffestiniog, owned by John and Ceilia Whitehead since 2007. The stone-and-slate house has five en-suite rooms, split between the main building and two timber-framed annexe rooms with turf roofs, sleeping around a dozen guests in total. The Whiteheads run the property on a low-carbon basis: it draws on solar power and green electricity, provides electric-vehicle charging points, and has been assessed at gold standard by Green Tourism. The Ffestiniog Railway runs along the edge of the garden, with the Tanygrisiau halt a short walk away and quarry walks, Zip World Llechwedd and the Stwlan and Tanygrisiau reservoirs close by. Accommodation is room-only, and it operates from this single site in Eryri.