The Loft Conference Centre
Welcome to The Loft Conference Centre, an exciting new venue for conferences, seminars, meetings and courses in the beautiful Severn Valley on the outskirts of the ancient market town of Welshpool.
Located at the impressive Coed-y-Dinas Garden, Home and Country Centre, The Loft Conference Centre is part of Cambrian Training Company's attractive new office complex in the shadow of the magnificent Powis Castle.
The unique development of Coed-y-Dinas has involved the sensitive conversion of an old Victorian farm site, which once belonged to the Earls of Powis, into a thriving retail centre and visitor attraction.
The Loft Conference Centre is a spacious and naturally lit room with attractive exposed roof trusses and can accommodate up to 50 delegates in a variety of seating formats. The Loft enjoys scenic rooftop views along the Severn Valley in two directions, is well equipped with high speed Internet access, an interactive Smart board, an LCD 40-inch television screen with a DVD and video player, video conferencing facilities, digital projector, white board and flip charts, together with photocopying and fax facilities.
Attractive delegate packages are available for both daytime and evenings seven days a week. Each conference, seminar, meeting or course can be tailor-made to suit your exact requirements and ample free parking is available on site. The Loft also offers a choice of catering packages to suit all tastes.
For those needing retail therapy whilst attending a conference, meeting or course, Coed-y-Dinas Garden, Home and Country Centre can offer an astonishing assortment of products to tempt all shoppers.
If enjoyment of the natural environment is more to your taste, then the surrounding countryside cannot fail to please, especially as there is a nature reserve bordering the 268-acre development.
History
The Loft Conference Centre is one of the original buildings at Coed-y-Dinas that have been sensitively restored, with great care taken to retain as many unusual features as possible.
Coed-y-Dinas once formed part of the Powis Estate and the earliest references to a house on the site was1720, with the present farmhouse being built in several phases between the late 18th and early 19th centuries. As with many large farmhouses of that period there was accommodation for servants, a dairy and a cheese room.
The first of the farm buildings is believed to have been built in around 1814 by French prisoners of war and used as a grain store. Evidence is still visible of how the grain was dried by having large openings at the base to allow air to move freely within the building.
The central Victorian buildings housed cattle stalls, a threshing room powered by steam, storage rooms for vegetables, stabling for 16 horses and a pony and trap shed. The cart shed, slaughterhouse, blacksmith shop and pigeon loft date to the 1880s.
