The New Lodge is a Grade II* listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 October 1992. Gateway.
The New Lodge
- WRENN ID
- buried-timber-gorse
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1992
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- The New Lodge, Plas Brondanw Estate, Porthmadog, Llanfrothen, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 614 420
- Coordinates
- 52.95781, -4.06446
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The New Lodge is a distinctive lodge built in the style of a late-medieval gatehouse, reminiscent of the early work of Sir Edwin Lutyens. It has two storeys and three bays, constructed using local materials with rubble elevations, a slate roof, ramped boarded eaves, and a tiled ridge, along with stone chimney stacks. The design features rounded ends and an overall corbelled-out first floor, which includes a lateral chimney breast at the front. The windows are diamond-leaded casements, mostly in two-light configurations, with three-light windows on the ground floor front and the first floor rear. The ground floor has voussoirs above the windows.
To the left, there is a gated through-passage with high carriage arches and gables over the upper windows at both the front and rear, along with a further pedestrian archway at the left end. The front gable is topped with a ball finial, while the rear gable has a chimney stack at the apex. An oval slate plaque dated to the building is located on the lateral chimney, and there is a plaque with the initials CWE above the front arch. The entrance is situated within the through-passage and features a broadly boarded and chamfered door. There is a small modern extension at the right end.
The interior was not inspected during the survey, but it is reported that the rooms have no corners.
Local climate
The New Lodge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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