Real Estate in North Wales Andrew Testa for The New York Times A traditional Welsh farmhouse with five bedrooms, at Bryn Melin Farm in North Wales, is on the market for $1.9 million. A traditional Welsh farmhouse with five bedrooms, along with five cottages set around a central courtyard, is on the market for $1.9 million in North Wales. The house, which started out in 1750 as a traditional one-room Welsh long house, had its other rooms added a century later; total space today is just over 3,000 square feet. The cottages, which are used as holiday rentals, were converted from barns, also built around 1750, and are each about 825 square feet in size, with either one or two bedrooms. The two-story main house is called Bryn Melyn, which means "yellow hill" in Welsh. It has formal gardens with a pagoda and a gazebo, along with an all-season tennis court and ponds on 13 acres of wooded property. Other spaces include a workshop, a plant room, a double garage, a games room, and multiple storage rooms that could be converted into more accommodations. The property comes with private fishing rights along a nearby stretch of the River Dee, which is known for its salmon and sea trout. The house, which like the cottages is built of traditional Welsh stone, has been fully restored, though under the slate of the roof it retains its original timbers. It has four reception rooms, a kitchen, two full baths, and a third bathroom with a shower. The ground-floor drawing room has a stone inglenook fireplace large enough to hold a wood-burning stove in its cubbyhole. The dining room, too, has a working fireplace; the two other fireplaces in the house are decorative. In the kitchen, a brick archway creates a niche for the cooking area, with its double oven by the Swedish company Aga and separate oven by the German company Neff. The cabinets are white lacquer, and the backsplash is tiled in black and white. The floor is gray slate. There is cream-colored carpeting throughout the house, except for two bedrooms with oak floors. The five cottages also have original wooden beams, and are fully modernized with kitchens and laundry facilities. The holiday cottage leasing business, which has won Welsh tourism awards, has earned more than 120,000 pounds a year, said the home's owner, Eirian Davies. The cottages have traditional Welsh names based on their former farming uses. The region is still agricultural, producing sheep and cattle. Bryn Melyn is on the edge of Snowdonia National Park, and about four miles from the farming village of Bala, which is convenient for grocery shopping. There are government-funded facilities for mountain biking, cycling and whitewater rafting nearby. The beaches of Porthmadog and Barmouth are an hour's drive through the national park. The closest international airports are in Liverpool and Manchester, each a drive of about one and a half hours. The residential real estate market in Wales has taken a beating, and home prices are still generally about 10 percent off their peak in September 2007, said Peter Reilly, the head of Cardiff residential sales with Savills. The sluggish market is reflected in the length of time it has taken to sell prime properties like Bryn Melyn, which has been listed for about nine months, said Stephen Cheshire, a director with Jackson-Stops & Staff and the listing agent. "The market is slow, and it's very price-sensitive," he said, pointing out that well-priced homes eventually sell. However, brokers agree that Wales, with its striking coastline, mountains, picturesque countryside and transportation connections to England, offers good value for the money. In general, a home in Wales might be half the price, of a comparable home in central England, or even less, said Peter Edwards, a partner in the Country Department at Knight Frank. "If you want to buy a lot of property in terms of square footage for not a lot of money," Mr. Edwards said, "Wales is still probably the best place in the United Kingdom to do that, other than maybe the far reaches of northern Scotland." Wales has not attracted many foreign buyers, and those prospective homeowners are typically Europeans with some connection to Wales, brokers said.