Hafod Lodge

Hafod Lodge is a house, originally a school, dating back to the 18th century. It is constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof and large, painted stucco chimneys. The building is in a picturesque Tudor style. The central section is gabled and two-storey, housing a schoolteacher’s house faced in painted roughcast, flanked by schoolroom wings. A large, painted roughcast chimney is on the left side, featuring a moulded base, a pedestal with a string course beneath paired large shafts joined by a segmental-pointed arch (for a bell), and a moulded cornice. The front of the house has deep gable verges with wavy bargeboards over a first-floor square window with a triple casement, and a ground-floor small canted bay, the glazing of which has been replaced with uPVC.

The right return wall is of rubble and features a 20th-century imitation-stone gabled doorcase with wavy bargeboards. The right wing is two-storey, with a massive painted roughcast chimney on the ridge, in line with the dividing wall to the house. This chimney has moulding above its base, a large rectangular shaft, and a moulded cornice. The first floor front is windowless, with a long rectangular recessed panel. Two 20th-century windows are located below, with concrete sills. The rubble right gable end has wavy bargeboards over a blank oval with cut-stone voussoirs, and a first-floor triple casement with voussoirs and a slate sill. A string-course is visible within an attached single-storey outbuilding, which has a later garage door added to its left.

The left wing is single-storey and set less far back. It has two windows with stone voussoirs (with 20th-century glazing), and a gabled dormer with wavy bargeboards over the right window. A grey stone projecting porch with a Tudor-arched, chamfered entry and wavy bargeboards is also present, alongside a 20th-century window to the left. The gable end of this wing has wavy bargeboards.

At the rear, the left side has a raised pier, possibly a truncated chimney to the right wing. Casement pairs with stone voussoirs and stone sills are present on each floor. The centre range projects, featuring a wavy bargeboard, a blank roundel in the gable above a casement pair with stone voussoirs and a stone sill to the first floor, and a blocked similar window below. A single-storey right wing has two casement pair windows to the left, with stone voussoirs and stone sills, and a rendered section where the wall has been rebuilt.

The interior is not available for inspection and is said to have been much altered in the later 20th century.