Conway Lodge

Conway Lodge is a picturesque, Domestic-revival lodge dating to the 1890s. It is constructed of random grey rock-faced rubble stone with red sandstone dressings, timber-framed gables and attic, and a steep tile roof with moulded finials and gables on brackets, and a brick ridge stack at the rear. The lodge features extensive timber framing, distinguished by numerous inscriptions painted white, and windows with leaded lights.

The building has a near-symmetrical front, comprising a gabled central range with hipped pentices set back to the right and left. To the right, the pentice is continuous with a gabled wing, and to the left, the pentice abuts a hipped projection, creating a near T-shaped plan. Each pentice has rustic posts on stone bases, with intertwined branches below the eaves. The entrance is within the right-hand pentice, and features a door with vertical ribs. To its right is a small window. The centre of the front has a canted three-light mullioned bay window, over which the projecting gable is carried on outer brackets. The attic window is a four-light wood-mullioned casement, with cusped panels below its sill. Inscriptions are visible on the bressumer ('My help is from the Lord’), the attic window sill (‘Auxilium Meum a Domino’ – the Mostyn family motto), and the collar beam, which features the Mostyn family monogram flanked by the date 'AD 1894'. A hipped projection on the left side has an original window in a dressed surround, and a later inserted window to its right.

The left end wall contains a two-light mullioned window, while the right gable end features a canted two-light mullioned bay window and corbelled outer brackets supporting the projecting gable. The attic has a two-light casement window, with the inscription ‘Heb Duw heb ddim Duw a digon’ on the bressumer, ‘HAM’ (Lady Henrietta Augusta Mostyn) inscribed above the window, and ‘1894’ on the collar. A small window in the side wall of a rear outshut is set back to the right.

The rear outshut has a boarded door on the left side and a three-light wood-framed mullioned and transomed window on the right. Stone courtyard walls abut the left and right ends, incorporating a rear wooden gate with iron bars. A detached, single-storey wash house of similar materials stands within the courtyard. It has a stack to the rear, a boarded door to the right, a central small-pane casement window, and a boarded door in the left gable end.