The Harp InnInn, rooms & barn · Llangattock, CrickhowellLlangattock
  • Inn since 1664
  • Six rooms
  • Four casks
  • Sunday roast
  • The barn

A pub first, with rooms.

A coaching inn on the canal at Llangattock, under Table Mountain and across the Usk from Crickhowell: six bedrooms with the rate for tonight worked out on this page, four Welsh casks and a fire, a Sunday roast booked by the sitting, a boot room for the mud, and a barn across the yard for eighty.

Bar open now until 11:00pm; the kitchen has closed, the bar does a sandwich

The rooms, from £80 tonight The roast Sunday 25 October
  • Breakfast in every room rate
  • Dogs in the bar and two rooms
  • 4.8 from 742 reviews
The six rooms, tonightEvery rate

£80from, tonight, with breakfast (mid season, weekday)

  • The Sugar LoafSuperior double · sleeps 2£125
  • Table MountainClassic double · sleeps 2£105
  • The BlorengeClassic twin or double · sleeps 2£105
  • The Canal roomSmall double, dogs welcome · sleeps 2£95
  • The HayloftFamily room, dogs welcome · sleeps 4£145
  • The GarretAttic single or snug double · sleeps 2£80
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The room rate is on the websiteSix rooms, each with its price for a weekday and a weekend night in low, mid and high season, published here and worked out for tonight from the clock. No "from" prices that nobody has ever paid, no booking site taking fifteen per cent, breakfast in every rate.
A roast in sittings, with the covers leftSunday lunch is five sittings from half past twelve, twenty-four covers each, and the website says how many are left in each one. Welsh beef or pork, a nut roast, Yorkshires the size of a hat, £18 for one course.
Boots, dogs and bikes welcomeA boot room with a drying rack, towels for wet dogs, a hose, a lockable bike store and a map of the canal and the mountain by the door. Dogs in the bar, the garden and two of the rooms. The Beacons Way goes past the gate.
Four Welsh casks and a fireFour handpulls from breweries within thirty miles, changed when they blow and listed on the bar page, a Welsh cider, and a fire lit from the first cold evening in October to the last in April. The quiz is Wednesday; the folk session is the first Thursday.

The inn

Six things the Harp does, each priced.

All six

01

The rooms

Six rooms: four doubles (one with a bath and the mountain view), a family room in the old hayloft and a small attic double for a walker on their own. Every rate includes breakfast and is published on the rooms page by season (low, mid and high) and by night (weekday or weekend), with tonight's rate worked out from the clock. From £70 a night in the attic to £190 for the hayloft on a summer weekend.

Tonight from the lowest rate on the rooms page; a classic double from £95 on a weekday in low season to £140 on a high-season weekend, the Sugar Loaf with the bath from £110 to £165, the hayloft family room from £130 to £190, the attic single from £70.

02

The bar and the beers

A flagstone bar with a fire, four handpulls from breweries within thirty miles (the current four are listed on this page), a Welsh cider, a short list of Welsh gins and whiskies, and a pint from £4.40. Open every day from noon; the Wednesday quiz, a folk session on the first Thursday, and the Six Nations on the one screen that only comes out for rugby.

A pint from £4.

03

The restaurant and the Sunday roast

A thirty-six-cover dining room off the bar with a short menu that changes with the month: Welsh lamb from the farm up the hill, beef from Brecon, trout from the Usk, a pie, a fish, a vegetarian main that is not an afterthought, mains from £14.50. On Sundays the roast runs in five sittings from half past twelve, twenty-four covers a sitting, £18 for one course, and the roast page shows the covers left in each sitting.

Mains from £14.

04

Walkers, dogs and bikes

The inn sits where the Monmouthshire and Brecon canal towpath meets the lane up Table Mountain, with the Beacons Way past the gate and the Sugar Loaf and the Blorenge across the valley. A boot room with a drying rack and a hose, towels for dogs, a lockable bike store with a pump and a track stand, a packed lunch for £9.50 ordered the night before, and three walks from the door written up with times and the pub at the end.

Nothing to stay dry: the boot room, the drying rack, the towels and the maps are free.

05

Weddings in the barn

The stone barn across the yard, restored in 2016, seats eighty at long tables for a wedding breakfast and holds a hundred and twenty for the evening, with the inn's own bar, the garden to the canal and the six rooms for the wedding party. £2,200 for the barn from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning including the six rooms on the Saturday night, a three-course feast at £48 a head, and a party evening in the barn for £650. About fifteen weddings a year, one a weekend.

The barn £2,200 from Friday 2pm to Sunday 10am, including all six rooms on the Saturday night; the feast £48 a head for three courses; the evening food £14 a head; drinks at bar prices or a package at £28 a head; a party evening £650.

06

Christmas and New Year

Christmas at a pub with a fire: Christmas Day lunch at £95 a head in two sittings (noon and 2:30), a three-night Christmas in the rooms with lunch included, Boxing Day breakfast and a walk up Table Mountain with Huw, New Year's Eve dinner and a band in the barn for £65, and the bar open every day except Christmas evening. The Christmas week is high season for the rooms; December bookings open on the first of September.

Christmas Day lunch £95 a head, under-twelves £35; the three-night Christmas in a room from £420 for two including lunch; New Year's Eve dinner and the band £65, under-sixteens £25; Boxing Day breakfast and the walk £15.

Sunday

The roast Sunday 25 October, by the sitting.

The roast page: the menu and how it works

£18 for the roast, £24 with a starter or a pudding, £29 with both, under-twelves £9. Twenty-four covers a sitting (twenty in the last). Walk-ins get what is left.

The bar

Four Welsh casks, a Raglan cider, and a fire from October.

The oldest room in the building and the reason the rest exists: flagstones, an inglenook you can sit inside, four handpulls from breweries within thirty miles changed when they blow, and the list below is the bar as it is this week. The quiz is Wednesday at eight, a pound a head to the mountain rescue; the folk session is the first Thursday.

  • Crug Hywel PalePale ale · Crickhowell, two miles
    4.0%£4.40
  • Usk GoldGolden ale · Brecon, twelve miles
    4.2%£4.50
  • Blorenge BitterBest bitter · Abergavenny, six miles
    3.8%£4.40
  • Pen y Fan PorterPorter, the winter cask · Brecon, twelve miles
    5.1%£4.80
  • Raglan DryCider, on handpull · Raglan, eleven miles
    5.5%£4.60
  • Cwrw Nos DaAlcohol-free, in bottles, 0.5% · Crickhowell, two miles
    0.5%£3.60
The bar page
The bar of an old stone pub: four brass-and-wood handpulls on a dark wood bar, a log fire burning in a stone inglenook, flagstone floor, a dog asleep on a rug

How we run it

Four things that are true of the Harp.

A pub first, with rooms

The Harp has been an inn since 1664 and a pub for the village every night of it. The bar is the bar; residents sit where everybody sits, and the locals will tell you where to walk. We did not turn it into a hotel and we are not going to.

Prices that are prices

The room rates, the roast, the barn, Christmas and New Year are all priced on this website to the pound, including VAT and breakfast, and they are the same if you ring, email or walk in. The only thing cheaper is nothing.

Huw and Nia, and the same cook since 2012

Huw grew up two doors down and took the tenancy in 2009; Nia runs the rooms and the barn; Gwen has run the kitchen since 2012 and the roast is hers. You will meet all three on a Sunday.

Open every day, food twice a day

The bar is open every day of the year except Christmas Day evening. Food at lunch and in the evening, the roast in sittings on Sunday, breakfast for anyone from half past eight. If the kitchen is closed the bar still does a sandwich.

  • 6bedrooms, each with its nightly rate by season and by night on this website
  • 4Welsh casks on the bar, changed when they blow, and a fire lit from October
  • 120roasts most Sundays across five sittings, booked by the sitting with the covers left shown
  • 4.8average rating
The inside of a restored stone barn set for a wedding breakfast: long wooden tables with white cloths, foliage and candles, festoon lights strung from oak beams, open doors onto a yard

The barn

Eighty at long tables, the pub's own bar, the six rooms, £2,200 for the weekend.

The old stables across the yard, re-roofed in 2016: licensed for a ceremony of a hundred, eighty seated for the feast Gwen writes with you at £48 a head, a band on the barn floor until midnight, and the pub still open to the village because a wedding in a pub that has closed is a wedding in a function room. About fifteen a year, one a weekend.

Weddings in the barn

Walkers and dogs

The Beacons Way past the gate, a boot room for the mud, a towel for the dog.

Half the people who stay arrive on foot or wet. The back door opens into a boot room with a heated drying rack, a hose and the maps; dogs come in the bar and two of the rooms; bikes go in a locked stone store. Three walks from the door are written up with honest times and the bus back, and Huw will tell you which one is too much for the weather.

  • The towpath to Gilwern. 2 hours each way, flat, climb none
  • Table Mountain. 1h 30 up, 1h down, climb 380 metres
  • The Sugar Loaf. 3 hours round, climb 480 metres
The boot room, the dogs and the walks
Two walkers in muddy boots and waterproofs with a wet collie on a lead arriving at the stone doorway of a country inn, hills and low cloud behind

Guests and locals

What people say.

4.8742 reviews
The rooms

The price on the website was the price, breakfast was in it, and the bath looks at the mountain. Downstairs is a proper pub with the village in it, not a hotel bar with residents in it. We walked Table Mountain from the door and dried everything on the rack.

RhodriCardiff, two nights in the Sugar Loaf
Sunday roast

Checked the roast page on Wednesday, saw the one o'clock had four left, rang, got it. Beef pink, Yorkshires like hats, gravy in a jug you can hold. Grandad has been coming since Huw's father had it and says the roast is better now, which he would not say lightly.

The MorgansAbergavenny, the 1pm sitting
Weddings

Eighty in the barn at long tables, the lamb Gwen does, our own band, the pub still open to the village so Tom's uncle could talk to the locals about rugby, and the six rooms for the family. £2,200 for the barn and the rooms. We looked at venues four times the price with half the soul.

Lowri and TomMarried in the barn, June

All six, including the four-star one

Questions people ask at the bar

How much is a room tonight?

The rooms page works it out from the clock: each of the six rooms has a weekday and a weekend rate in low, mid and high season, breakfast included, and the one for tonight is picked out. Put a date in and it shows that night instead. The lowest tonight is in the hero line on the home page.

Can I book the Sunday roast online?

The roast page shows the five sittings for this coming Sunday with the covers left in each. Pick a sitting with covers and the booking form takes your name and numbers; we confirm by text within the hour. Walk-ins get what is left.

Are dogs allowed?

In the bar and the garden always, and in the Canal room and the Hayloft overnight for £10 a night with a bed, a bowl and a towel. Not in the restaurant during the roast. The boot room has a hose for the mud.

What is on the bar?

Four Welsh casks, changed when they blow and listed on the bar page the same day, a Raglan cider on handpull, two lagers, six Welsh gins and Penderyn in three ages. A pint from £4.40. The fire is lit from October to April.

Can we get married there?

In the barn across the yard: licensed for a hundred, eighty seated for the feast, the pub's own bar, and the six rooms for the wedding party. £2,200 for the weekend, the feast £48 a head. About fifteen a year, one a weekend, and the pub stays open to the village.

Are you open on Christmas Day?

For lunch in two sittings at noon and half past two, £95 a head, then the bar closes at four for the evening. Christmas Eve carols at six, Boxing Day breakfast and the walk up Table Mountain, New Year's Eve dinner and a band in the barn. Bookings open on the first of September.

A room with the rate on the page, a roast with the covers left, a bar with the village in it.

The rooms page works tonight's rate out from the clock, the roast page shows what is left in each sitting, and one form books either, a table, the barn or Christmas. Nia replies within the hour while the bar is open; nothing is charged until we confirm.

Book a roomThe roast sittings