With estate agents reporting a high demand for homes in rural locations, finding an island of idyllic isolation on a budget is becoming much harder.
Properties that are move-in ready are selling quickly- and for premium prices in the most popular coastal and country locations in Wales. So, it might be time to consider tackling a renovation project to secure that dream escape to the country.
Properties that need a full overhaul scream potential, but they also almost always guarantee the need for a hefty budget, patience and vision. But, at the end of the hard work the country escape is yours.
And this former farmhouse nestled in the pretty and peaceful Powys countryside could be ideal if you have all of these three elements needed to succeed - and can also offer the chance to earn an income if your budget can extend to converting the two outbuildings too.
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At the end of a country track located between Builth Wells and Talgarth, close to the village of Erwood and just north of the Brecon Beacons National Park, there's a gate that leads to this collection of attractive and classic stone farm buildings.
If a remote, peaceful existence sounds like your most idyllic and longed for lifestyle moving forward, then this site might be the property you feel the passion for, especially as it is on the market for £250,000.
For that you get three buildings but you also get a programme of renovation works to bring them all back to life.
There's the expected main farmhouse, a substantial former home that has a number of impressive period features inside waiting to impress any visitor (once they have been renovated and restored of course).
The classic, symmetrical farmhouse made from Welsh stone welcomes you as the property at the centre of this trio of main buildings, with a charming central storm porch.
The front door then leads straight into a reception room that might be empty of furniture but it is full of characterful features - flagstone floor, hefty ceiling beams and a huge open fire with a log burner.
Look closely and you will spot a bread oven nestled into a wall, suggesting that at some point in history this was the home's working kitchen.
Look closely on the other side of the fireplace and there's a delightful period door just wanting to be sanded to reveal its potentially beautiful wood panels beneath layers of paint. Behind the door, one of two staircases to the first floor is revealed.
Off this central room, to the right, there are two separate reception rooms that could easily offer a function as a playroom, snug or office.
Then, to the back of the property, there is a small lobby area that leads to the bathroom boasting a period roll-top bath one way and a surprisingly spacious bonus room the other way.
This additional rear reception room appears to have been probably added on to the house, as the original stone exterior wall of the home is the most impressive feature that dominates the space as one of the room's walls and is complemented by the quarry tile floor.
From the few belongings left behind in the home, this room was obviously well-loved as a place to relax and enjoy hobbies, with a shelving unit still heaving with books and a piano still in place.
There are two options for travel from this rear family room; through a cute and sunny garden room to the land that is waiting to be explored beyond the door, or through to the current kitchen breakfast room that is also another way of getting upstairs, via the home's second staircase.
This room is, again, a charming space full of character and full of potential to become the hub of the home with ample space for a large, central farmhouse table in the centre.
The space boasts exposed ceiling beams, exposed stone walls, and quarry floor tiles, all enhanced by the light streaming in through the duo of windows.
The views these two windows frame are of mesmerisingly beautiful countryside, hills, fields, hedgerows and trees in a vista that undulates to the horizon.
Up the stairs and to arguably the master bedroom, where the exposed beams, stone walls and views continue.
But if you want to visit the remaining two double bedrooms on the first floor, then you'll have to seek out that second staircase hiding behind the door in the main reception room.
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This secret staircase is a wonderful curved stone beauty that leads to a large landing area and access to the two further bedrooms.
Dragging yourself away from this house full of character that has surely sparked the imagination and whetted the renovation appetite to get started reviving the property, there are two further outbuildings to explore, located either side of the main home.
According to the estate agent, one of these outbuildings is a barn that measures about 13 metres by five metres and at some point was used as a garage and has the former pigsty attached to it.
Opposite this former home for pigs is another barn, split into three parts on the ground floor, and includes the former stable.
The first floor of this building has been used for storage and measures about nine metres by five metres with stone steps leading from the outside up to the first floor, providing easy access to the storage area.
Both of these bonus buildings of course offer potential for a variety of uses if a new owner can achieve planning permission for their chosen new function.
Maybe extra homes for family members, holiday lets to get the site paying you back for saving it from dereliction, or maybe one could become a totally awesome media and games room that the pigs would be envious to see in their former home.
The site might only come with about 0.5 of an acre as a garden that surrounds the property, but the sweeping and uninterrupted rural views make you feel like you own all you can see.
The estate agent states the site is for sale with no onward chain and with the potential for the next owner to take the next chapter of the life of this charming home and outbuildings onward into the future.
The property is for sale for £250,000 with estate agent James Dean, give their Builth Wells branch a call on 01982 552537 to find out more.
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