This house occupies a most important site. It is built just above the close wall at St David’s and has an astonishing view of the cathedral, facing it squarely at tower level. To arrive here is to feel that you have completed a pilgrimage, drawn down the long Pembrokeshire peninsula towards a place of worship that was already ancient when the Normans built their cathedral beside it. There is still much of the monastery here, in the actual buildings that survive, in their sense of enclosure within the valley and in the warmth of their welcome when finally you top the last hill, and pass between the last houses, to obtain your first full view of them.

The living-room, too, has great serenity, with the sun on one side and the sunlit cathedral on the other. At your door is the reassurance of cathedral life, its services, the bells and the building itself, and also a lively town. The sea is about a mile away in most directions; the coastal path, with stunning views, encircles St David’s – ‘a long way, but very good for you’.

Sleeps: 4+2