Ty Uchaf means ‘the top’ or ‘highest’ house. It sits at the head of a valley above Betws-y-Coed. A datestone for 1685 was found in the tumbledown pigsty.

One of three Landmarks in the remote upland hamlet Rhiwddion, Ty Capel was built in 1860 for the slate quarrying community that once lived and worked here.

Church Cottage was the very first Landmark acquired by Sir John Smith in 1965. A Victorian cottage,it is cosy accommodation in a beautiful part of Wales.

Coed y Bleiddiau is a small railway cottage at a remote private halt on the restored Ffestiniog Railway.

This 18th-century cottage was attached to one of Wales's shrines of Nonconformity, the Maesyronnen Chapel. It sits on a high shelf above the Wye looking out across the Black Mountains.

Plas Uchaf is a substantial hall-house built in about 1400 and situated in the Dee valley, an area filled with scenery, wildlife and history. Few houses of this age survive in Wales.

This charming little house is situated in the Leighton model estate. The Cottage was lived in by the poultry-keeper, who looked after the poultry housed in an ornamental Fowl House next door.

Ty Coch, which means red house, is a miner’s cottage built in the late-18th century which we saved and restored in 1969. The cottage looks across the head of a wooded valley above Betws-y-Coed.

Bath Tower is one of eight towers built in Caernarfon’s fortified walls in the late 13th century by King Edward I. Guests enjoy views of the Menai Strait and Caernarfon Castle.

One of the first Landmarks to be opened by the Trust in 1967, Paxton’s Tower Lodge is a fine example of an early 19th century Welsh cottage.

A castellated and most romantic Gothick retreat overlooking the Usk Valley, cradle of that branch of landscape aesthetics so justly called the Picturesque.

The Grammatica Britannica was written in this 16th-century manor house in 1593, making it the possible birthplace of the modern Welsh language.

This old stone farmhouse has wide views out over the hills and forests of Radnor, whilst Old Radnor has everything a village should, including a very fine church.

With astonishing views of St. David’s Cathedral, Tower Hill sits just above the close wall, facing the Cathedral at tower level. The town of St. David’s is a site of ancient pilgrimage.

Bought by the Landmark Trust in 1979, Monkton Old Hall is believed to date from Medieval times and probably acted as the guesthouse to the nearby small Benedictine Priory.