Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
School Lodge
Newcastle Higher, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 13 November 1997
- Locality
- Pen-y-Fai
- Community
- Newcastle Higher
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.52440, -3.59700
- Cadw reference
- 19055
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located SW of Pen-y-Fai church on S side of a driveway to Court Colman and with iron gates attached.
History
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.
Exterior
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.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
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.
Nearby in the register
- Gateway at former entrance to Court Colman.Domesticunder 1 mi
- Church LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of All Saints, Pen-y-FaiReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The PheasantCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.