Some of the features currently under renovation are the bowling green, orchard, vegetable garden, fruit garden, terraced lawns and woodlands with plenty of paths through the wilder areas. Hafod Wen was built in 1904 by an Army Colonel who was influenced in the design by his time in the Boer War in South Africa. The Dutch Colonial gables and the red tiled roof making this a most unusual house. The Welsh name means a white (Wen) Summer House (Hafod). The well-known chocolate company Cadbury's bought the house in the twenties and used it as a convalescent home for workers from their Bournville factory in Birmingham. It returned to private ownership in the sixties. We moved in May 1996. The house was built in Edwardian times in an unusual Dutch Colonial style. The rooms are spacious, well appointed and full of character, just like the owners.