Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
New Inn Lodge
Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1999
- Locality
- Merthyr Mawr House
- Community
- Merthyr Mawr
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.49310, -3.60070
- Cadw reference
- 21235
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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
Approximately 400m NNE of Merthyr Mawr House on the N side of the main entrance to Merthyr Mawr House and on S side of New Inn Road.
History
Sir John Nicholl purchased the Merthyr Mawr Estate in 1804 and planned a new country residence away from the old manor house, Merthyr Mawr Hall (now the site of Home Farm). A new site was chosen below Chapel Hill which overlooks the Ogmore valley, where Merthyr Mawr House was built 1806-9. The original road to Merthyr Mawr village was appropriated by Nicholl as the drive to the new house, at the entrance to which New Inn Lodge was built. An architect's drawing of the lodge accompanies a drawing of part of the service range of the house, suggesting that the lodge was designed by Henry Wood. The lodge was completed by 1813 when it is shown on a plan of the Estate.
Exterior
Single-storey lodge of coursed limestone and hipped slate roof with central stone stack. The single-window front faces S to the drive and has a 4-panel door to L and 12-pane hornless sash window to R, both under flat arches. The 2-window side walls have similar sash windows. A boundary wall is attached to the NE angle. An L-shaped projection at the rear was added late C19.
Interior
Modernised internally. The main doorway is now blocked behind the door and entry is through the added rear wing.
Reason for designation
An integral component of the surviving buildings associated with Merthyr Mawr House and the Merthyr Mawr Estate.
Nearby in the register
- Gate, Gatepiers and Gate Posts at the entrance to Merthyr Mawr HouseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- New Inn BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- New Inn BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- Chapel of St RoqueReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.