Bryngwilla Lodge

Bryngwilla Lodge is an entrance lodge, now disused, built in the early 19th century for Charlotte, Lady Dungannon. It is constructed from tooled sandstone ashlar and features a low-pitched slate roof that is concealed by an embattled parapet. The lodge is designed in a Castellated Gothic style, characterized by a central pointed archway supported by clustered columns and topped with an embattled parapet that is rounded at the ends.

The building has octagonal corner turrets at both the front and rear, which also have moulded cornices and embattled parapets, adorned with cruciform-shaped spike finials and globes at their intersections. The lower side ranges, which provide living accommodation, also display a cornice, embattled parapet, and octagonal corner turrets. The turrets feature blind rectangular slits and mock gun-loops at the tops of the outer turrets.

Flanking the central archway, the windows in the side ranges are three-light with intersecting tracery, fitted with cast-iron casements and moulded hood-moulds. The flanking walls on both sides are open at the ends, with the right side having previously included a later lean-to. The wrought-iron gates to the archway are decorated with various Gothic motifs, including rosettes, quatrefoils, and poppy-head finials.

Inside, the lodge has a rib-vaulted roof with wooden ribs and a foliated plaster boss. There are round-headed arched recesses with stone seats on the sides, and ogee-headed doorways leading to the flanking ranges, which feature Gothic traceried panelling on the doors. The interior retains original plaster cornices, wooden skirting boards, and dado rails, along with an early 19th-century fireplace in the left range. Bryngwilla Lodge is situated at the entrance to the south drive of Brynkinalt, an early 17th-century house that underwent extensive remodelling between approximately 1808 and 1812.