Lodge at Craig-y-parc

The Lodge at Craig-y-parc is a gatehouse that serves as the entrance to Craig-y-parc, providing offices and staff accommodation over two storeys. It is constructed from coursed snecked red sandstone, featuring rockfaced dressings on the ground floor and a slate/tile hung first floor. The building has a steep-pitched hipped roof made of small slates, with boarded overhanging eaves, a ridge, and substantial end external stacks made of grey rockfaced stone.

The casement windows are designed with leaded quarries in wooden frames, arranged in multiple lights, and are topped with tiled hoods and sills. The ground floor includes a 3-light window and a 5-light window on each side of the wide gateway, while the first floor has two 4-light windows on each side and paired 3-light windows above the gateway, all positioned close to the overhanging eaves. The north-facing entrance elevation is simpler, featuring two long hipped-roofed full dormers.

Inside the gateway, the walls are limewashed, and there are doorways on each side named Ty'r Garth and Ty Heulog, each with vertically panelled doors. The entrance is enhanced by a fine pair of decorative gates made of scrolled ironwork that sweep to the centre, accompanied by matching side panels. Small flanking walls extend from the frontage, creating a defined entrance. The ground floor contains small offices, some of which retain grates.