It's a £5m property sale for multiple reasons(Image: Balfours LLP, Shrewsbury)

The jaw-dropping extras with this £5m cute woodland home that's not been on sale for a century

20 Jun 2026, 16:18 by Joanne Ridout · Wales Online

If you can ever find it, nestled into a quiet and majestic landscape of rolling hills and wooded valleys, Bellan Hall will greet you with peace and privacy as an idyllic rural sanctuary cocooned in nature with pockets of enchanting woodland to explore, pathways to hike and hillsides to climb.

There are no near neighbours and just a tiny single track to eventually arrive at the front door of this distinctive New England-style white clapboard façade. It's an intriguing property for a number of reasons above and beyond its Massachusetts design hiding in the heart of Wales.

It is thought to have been built in 1887 for the Chamberlain family, residents of the Birmingham area and is reputed to have even welcomed former Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain as a guest. For more home, renovation and interiors stories sent to your inbox twice a week sign up to the property newsletter here.

But maybe it's the £5m price tag that is the most memorable aspect of this property for sale. Inside the former hunting lodge offers a large reception room opening out onto a veranda where views of the surrounding landscape are mesmerising - all you need to do is add a rocking chair and the picture perfect scene is complete.

There's an adjacent kitchen breakfast room, two bedrooms and a bathroom on the ground floor and a further third bedroom on the first floor.

It's lovely but not a lot of property for the guide price, so there must be more to this house than first impressions - and there is - four more substantial properties located across over 700 acres of land.

There's Caestwbwrn Farm, located within 384 acres of land and let out under a Farm Business Tenancy until 2032. Keep travelling and you come to Rhosgomorog Farm and 3122 acres which is let under an Agricultural Holdings Act Tenancy but the estate agent states they are not aware that the tenant has any successor.

Llechwedd Du is an attractive Welsh longhouse let under a Welsh Government Occupation Contract while is an attractive stone built property with an adjoining stone barn that could be converted for alternative uses subject to obtaining the necessary consents. The current occupier occupies the property under a Welsh Government Occupation Contract.

Cleddan Cottage is a building ready to be brought back to life, subject to obtaining the necessary consents, to provide additional accommodation for Bellan Hall, a separate dwelling or holiday let unit, or a combination of the two.

Add in acres of woodland, a fresh water lake, a stretch of the River Cleddan, the potential to gain income via the construction of a single wind turbine via the option to work with Vattenfall, plus the potential to create a sporting estate that links back to why Bellan Hall was constructed in the first place, and surely this property package is currently the most unique in Wales?

The estates, located between Machynlleth and Welshpool in the heart of Wales is on the market with a guide price of £5m with Balfours LLP, Shrewsbury, call 01743 353511 to find out more.

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Dating back to 1887 the former hunting lodge is though to have been built for the Chamberlain family, from Birmingham, and is reputed to have even welcomed former Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain as a guest.(Image: Balfours LLP, Shrewsbury)

The aerial view shows the property is surrounded by an undulating and unspoilt landscape, offering a tranquil and idyllic sanctuary in the heart of mid Wales between Machynlleth and Welshpool(Image: Balfours LLP, Shrewsbury)

The property and its estate is for sale for the first time in over 100 years(Image: Balfours LLP, Shrewsbury)