The West Usk Lighthouse is a cosy bed and breakfast  situated near the City of Newport, Gwent, at the junction of the Severn and the Usk Estuaries, overlooking the Bristol Channel. 

It  was  named as one of the 'Most Romantic in Britain' by Cosmopolitan magazine in 1998. The lighthouse has been featured in most national magazines and newspapers, too numerous to mention. TV coverage,  included The Big Breakfast Show, House Busters, My House,  House to House,  Extreme Houses & Coastal Living.  Recent articles have been in Real Magazine,  Sunday Mirror,  Sunday Times, Your Home.  The Observer and the Sunday Times Supplement (Dec 05 issue) and the Independent (June 06).  Tesco Magazine (Aug 06), Glamour (Sept 06), Build It (May 07), Grand designs (May 07), three page feature in "U" Hong Kong travel magazine (June 07) and The Lamp (Sept 07). Toyota Magazine (Nov. 07) Mail on Sunday (Nov.07) 

We feature in a new book by Michael Davies called "Discovering Welsh Houses" - 18 hand picked beautiful properties, published by Graffeg & Graffeg.  We are on pages 36-45.(Nov 07) 

The West Usk Lighthouse is a bed and breakfast establishment.  It is quirky and comfortable rather than luxurious.  Built in 1821,  it was designed by  James Walker,  a Scottish architect  and is unique among lighthouses.     All accommodation is within,   rooms are wedge-shaped; the stone spiral staircase in the centre  is found above a collecting well,   now a wishing well!   The entrance hall is slate bedded and we have a Dalek at the bottom of the stairs!.

It  is perhaps the strangest house around,  found at the end of a very long stony and bumpy track - it is an unusual example of its kind, built to a unique design; not tall as most lighthouses are, and considerably bigger in circumference.  

In 1821, it was on an island where the Severn and Usk run into the sea, with views far out into the Bristol Channel. Since then, land has been reclaimed and although on one side the loudest sound is of the sea,  when the tide (second fastest in the world) comes racing in to the foot of the building, and on the other side,  only the occasional mooing cow can be heard.

The West Usk Lighthouse was decommissioned in 1922, and became a private house shortly afterwards but soon fell into dis-repair and became derelict.. We bought  the West Usk in 1987. It took 2 years of hard work to make it habitable.