4 bathrooms in Dolfor? You must be joking!

Ground floor plan

Our architect, Keith Dabson, has produced final building plans for our ambitious conversion of Dolfor into a 4 bedroom B&B with all rooms ensuite. It involves building over the path at the back and making better use of all the roof spaces at the back. It is ingenious and we looking forward to getting on with the work. Tenders are due back next week with a start during January.

First floor plan

Advance notice of an Extraordinary Event

Flyer for the event.

Readers will know that we at the Edge of Wales are very active in the R.S. Thomas and M.E. Eldridge Appreciation Society. For four years we have been part of an annual literary festival held in Aberdaron. As part of the Festival in 2018 (see rsthomaspoetry.co.uk) we are organising an extraordinary musical event in Bangor Cathedral on the afternoon of July 1st. This is to be called “RSThomas for a new generation” and will incorporate a World Premiere for a work composed by Ellen Davies, “Pilgrimages”, in which Ensemble Cymru (a small orchestra ) and the Royal Harpist, Anne Denholm, will perform. Following that there will be another World Premiere, a choral composition involving the Cathedral Choir, composed by Rob Moran from Philadelphia. There will also be a series of readings by the Poet Owen Lowery who was inspired by RS. This is entitled “The poet that prevails”. 


This will be an extraordinary musical and literary event and we would urge all readers to come to it. Normally, tickets for such an event would cost in the region of £40 each but, as it has been heavily sponsored and is to be held in the Cathedral-in place of Evensong- tickets are to be without charge but strictly allocated by the Society.
At the moment the tickets are with the Society. If you would like to reserve some places then please register with the Society Director, Susan Fogarty on susanfogarty@gmail.com or write to us. 

Bangor cathedral

Planning permission granted for extending and modernising Dolfor cottage

For many years our white cottage with a red roof, Dolfor 1, has been the poor relation to Manaros, the luxury house in Aberdaron. It shares the same plot but, as a base for our office and where Peter lives, it is not much different in facilities to what it was when it was first built in 1920, at the same time as the old, now demolished, Wembley Stadium. Like Wembley it was considered ultra modern at the time, and used the fashionable material of concrete for both the walls and the roof. Over the years, however, the tiles became porous and had to be painted with red oxide paint to keep out the rain; hence the distinctive red colour.

The architect for Manaros has now drawn up plans to extend and to modernise Dolfor to incorporate 4 ensuite bedrooms; one of which will be on the ground floor and fully accessible for disabled guests-large enough to be a family room and with a wheel in / walk in wet-room shower. 

When built we will be letting out these rooms on a B&B basis. Planning permission has now been granted. Watch this space!

Manaros Holidays in 2018

We have decided to offer Manaros though Sykes Holidays starting this year. Since we hope to let many more weeks we have been able to reduce our prices for winter, spring and autumn, with seven night breaks starting at £515. This works out at £9.20 per person, per night for a group of eight people! If you would like to book then please telephone us on 01758 760 652 or book through our website www.aberdaroncottage.co.uk. Weekly prices will be the same as through Sykes. We don't want to disappoint our returning customers, so if you are looking to come back to Aberdaron for a specific week then do please book early as we are expecting high demand.