Croeso! Terry and I will be delighted to welcome you to The Curriers Guest House in Llantwit Major.Situated in the heart of the historic small town of Llantwit Major, The Curriers offers comfortable bed and breakfast accommodation in sympathetically converted 18th Century cottages. We always aim to provide a friendly home-from-home where everyone, be they on business or pleasure, will be fully at ease. ACCOMMODATION & FACILITIES Come and go as you please through the guests’ front door. Inside you will find a breakfast room, with beamed ceiling and stone fireplace and a lounge with TV with provision for Sky programmes, video, radio, books and magazines. Outside is a pretty, walled, courtyard garden, with tables and seating, where breakfast may be taken, weather permitting. We have six bedrooms and can accommodate up to 13 people. All rooms have a wash-hand basin, colour TV and generous provision of hot beverages. We have safe storage for bicycles and rucksacks and a drying room for wet clothes and boots. For excellent food, there are pubs, restaurants, cafes and a tearoom, all within a 5 minute walk. The surrounding villages all have further well-reputed places to eat. However, if you prefer to eat “at home”, we provide a refrigerator and a microwave, to re-heat a take-away or ready-prepared meal. There is ample free car parking at the rear of The Curriers. BREAKFASTOur breakfasts are famous locally and are very favourably reviewed in our Guest Book! Guests usually do not manage to eat anything more until tea-time! Breakfast is served from 06.45 to 09.30. Diabetic, vegetarian and vegan diets are no problem – just notify us of your requirements when booking. LLANTWIT MAJORLlantwit Major is Britain’s earliest centre of learning and has a history going back to Roman times. The Church of St. Illtud, dating from Norman times, is one of the loveliest in Wales. Wine Street, where The Curriers is situated, is virtually unchanged for more than 100 years and close by, in the narrow streets of the conservation area, are quaint cottages, shops and pubs as well as fields with chickens and donkeys! The town boasts leisure and sports facilities and has a large choice of eating and watering holes and a wide variety of shops. The Arts Centre at St. Donats is 2 miles away and it holds concerts, has a small cinema and hosts various arts festivals during the year. The new rail-link is due to open in May 2005 and this will run between Bridgend and Cardiff, stopping at Llantwit, Rhoose (airport) and Barry. This will benefit visitors to events at The Millenium Stadium, Cardiff International Arena and The Millenium Centre on Cardiff Bay . Llantwit Major is convenient for Atlantic College at St. Donats, RAF St. Athan and Aberthaw Power Station. It is ideal for travellers using Cardiff Wales Airport, being 7 miles away. TARIFFBed and Breakfast per person from £24 to £30 per night. Please
note: VAT is not applicable WE DO NOT ACCEPT CREDIT OR DEBIT CARDS – branches of most banks in Town, all have ATM machines. HISTORY OF THE CURRIERS GUEST HOUSEWe are often asked what a currier is. No – we do not make curry or transport goods and it is not our family name! A currier is/was a craftsman who dealt with leather after it had been tanned. Leather is rigid when the tanner has finished with it and the currier used various tools and substances, of an unmentionable nature, to soften and colour it. From the 1730's a currier lived in our house and had his workshop next door. Eventually the building deteriorated and was bought by a brewery, smartened up, extended and became The Curriers Arms in the 1840's. Some of the upstairs rooms were used by the school while that building, next door to The Curriers, was being extended in the 1890's. Our courtyard garden housed a skittle-alley. |
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1924 the brewery did not relicence the premises and it became a boarding
house. The garage was rented by the Post Office who used it to park
the post-office van, much to the consternation of the lady of the
house. She used to bathe there in a tin bath, as there was no bathroom,
and was interrupted on more than one occasion by the postman!
In the 1960's the building was modernised and became a guest house. Some people say we have a ghost. A shadowy figure of a woman has been seen crossing Wine Street and standing by our front door, then disappearing. We have never seen her but it is true to say that our front-door bell does sometimes ring when there is no-one there! Below are some of the comments in our Visitor’s Book.
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