THE COACH HOUSE |

“Your Hideaway is a real home from home in a beautiful location - a real treat. All the lovely little extras made our stay especially special.” Laura Green, Freya Murray - Sky Arts. London. UK.

“The attention to detail is out of this world. The Jacobean town house is filled with light and beauty. This is a rare place to find, quite exquisite, gloriously peaceful. I thoroughly enjoyed my stay, and I will be back. Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

Kateri Butler, Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Dom Joly: From The Independent - May 2008 - Dom, described as ‘the funniest man in Britain’ - Bob Croft, [ LA Times ] - is a British television comedian, columnist and journalist.

Giles Coren ("I'm proud to be famous for being rude") was skeptical ....... May 2009. Giles is a columnist, restaurant critic for the London Times, a TV presenter and in 2005 was named the UK’s ‘Food and Drink Writer of the Year’. And guess what? He liked the kitchen!

"The Brookfield Coach House is more lovely than I could possibly have imagined, cool and light and airy in summer and lovely and cosy by the fire when the weather turns cold. It's immaculately kept, there's so much space to unpack that it's like you own the place, it has a terrific bathroom and a really well equipped kitchen. 

Amazing to find something so quiet and peaceful only seconds from the centre of Hay."

Hay-on-Wye, a veritable Valhalla, complete with saucy vicar

“I’m down in Wales, working at the Hay-on-Wye Literature Festival for 10 days... Hay is a pretty little town sitting, unsurprisingly, given the name, on the river Wye.

I’ve got a lovely converted Coach House...[but] I was way too embarrassed to ask my hosts for a telly, as this might imply that I was not a ‘reader’ and this is, after all, a literary festival.   

Fortunately for me.... a magic goggle box... was quickly found and delivered to my residence, much as a delivery of cocaine and a couple of hookers might have been. I lay, happy as Larry in my old Welsh Hideaway Penthouse, soaking in my weekly fix of ‘The Apprentice’.”

( Dom Joly’s Hideaway Coach House now boasts a permanent flat screen TV with all the bells and whistles! )

THE STABLES |

“I adored my stay in my Hideaway. The Stables are in a gorgeous cobbled gated courtyard, and I spent my evenings drinking wine outside as the sun set and the birds chirped all around me. It has a wonderful sitting room, beautiful double bedroom and extremely well equipped kitchen. The Stables are a high-spec designer hideaway seamlessly mixing medieval with modern, and I cannot recommend it more highly. It is excellent value for money, extremely quiet, bang slap in the middle of Hay, yet five minutes walk from beautiful countryside.

I cannot believe my luck in finding this secret hideaway, and I recommend it wholeheartedly.”

Kate Jenkins, Esher, Surrey, UK.

THE JACOBEAN TOWN HOUSE |

“I took my family to the UK for Christmas and we stayed in this magnificent Jacobean town house. The house and garden are a delight - there are wow factors round every corner. It is exquisitely designed and decorated mixing all our modern comforts with beauty dating back some 400 years. We spoiled ourselves, enjoyed a vacation of a lifetime, and we will do it again!”

Dr. Steven Schoenberger, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, San Diego, California. USA.

“We stayed in Hideaway’s Jacobean town house during the 2008 and 2009 Hay Literary Festival, and again thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. It is a lovely house, and we felt so well taken care of. Thank you and we hope to return again!”

John Cassy - Channel Director, Sky Arts;  Lucy Carver - Director, The Bigger Picture, BSkyB;  Tricia Thompson - Head of Sport and Arts, The Bigger Picture, BSkyB. London. UK.

“Darn, what a place to find in Blighty. I stayed in this wonderful Jacobean town house  researching and writing my latest book. A dream palace for any writer with chronic procrastination syndrome...so serene...there’s nothing else to do except get on with it!! Great office, cool sauna – with inbuilt music a blasting if you are so inclined. A proper country mansion, just beautiful - a seriously great place – terrific value - go there!”

Brendan Mullen, Los Angeles, California, USA. - "Brendan Mullen is one of the classic aficionados of good music …" Anthony Kiedis, Red Hot Chili Peppers. In the ’70s expat Scot Brendan founded The Masque in Hollywood, booked LA’s Club Lingerie in the ’80s, and later the Variety Arts Center in downtown L.A.. He has written extensively on L.A.’s underground arts, punk, rock, jazz and hip-hop scenes, some of which he helped to inspire.

From The Brecon & Radnor Express - November 2005 -

‘Hideaways In Hay’ wins National Park Design and Conservation Award :-

“... The Hideaways project was awarded a coveted Category 1 Commendation last night by the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority in its 2005 biannual Conservation Awards Ceremony.”

AWARDS |

Cally Law: From The Sunday Times ‘Home’ - September 2005 -

A Town Built on Books - with a market, delicatessens and designer clothes shops, Hay-on-Wye offers more than just books.

“ One such is Hideaways In Hay, a complex restoration project in the literary hub of Hay-on-Wye which might have defeated most people, but one couple even won an award for theirs.

Michael & Séza Eccles have created Hideaways In Hay, pieds-à-terre for city visitors. They restored the Coach House and Stables reusing as much of the old materials as possible, and adding underfloor heating, sunken corner baths, and open-plan kitchens...

All these touches have been noted - The Brecon Beacons Park Authority has nominated Hideaways in Hay for a design and conservation award.”

Cally Law is a journalist who writes for The London Times and The Sunday Times.