A flurry of white flakes, a crunch underfoot. As winters warm, the white spotted fallow deer and sound of trampled beechnuts might be the closest you get to snow and frost. Nevertheless, December will be dark, and Newton House in the Dinefwr grounds will be cosy. In fact it’s cosy all year. Light glances off gilt frames. Staff and volunteers are cheerful. And you’re allowed, nay encouraged, to sit on the sofas.
Read more in the December 2019 edition of BBC Countryfile Magazine
Photograph by National Trust http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/dinefwr