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Latitude: 51.5244 / 51°31'27"N
Longitude: -3.597 / 3°35'49"W
OS Eastings: 289304
OS Northings: 181819
OS Grid: SS893818
Mapcode National: GBR HC.H3YL
Mapcode Global: VH5HB.LYS8
Plus Code: 9C3RGCF3+Q6
Entry Name: School Lodge
Listing Date: 13 November 1997
Last Amended: 13 November 1997
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 19055
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300019055
Location: Located SW of Pen-y-Fai church on S side of a driveway to Court Colman and with iron gates attached.
County: Bridgend
Community: Newcastle Higher (Y Castellnewydd)
Community: Newcastle Higher
Locality: Pen-y-Fai
Built-Up Area: Bridgend
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: School building
Built 1898-1899 by R.W. Llewellyn of Court Colman for school master of adjacent school. The lodge, one of a pair with Church Lodge and with gates between, stands at the former main entrance to Court Colman.
Tudor-Gothic style, single-storey lodge, consisting of a main range with gable facing the road, and with a wing at right angles set back to L. Of coursed, rock-faced Pennant sandstone with ashlar dressings and banding in Ham stone. Asbestos-slate roof with stone stack to wing; the main elevations have cusped barge boards with billets. The main range has, to front, a 3-light mullioned and transomed bay window, above which is the Llewellyn coat of arms in relief in a recessed Ham stone panel with ogee head. In the R side wall is a timber-framed porch on a dwarf wall, and incorporating an oak bench inside it. The doorway has a chamfered surround; the door is boarded and has fake strap hinges. (C20 range behind the porch.) The wing has a 2-light mullioned window in its gable end. A single-storey projection to L of and behind wing has details similar to the main house.
Not inspected.
A small lodge of distinctive character and detail, and an integral component of a fine group of buildings at the former entrance to Court Colman.
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