Porth Mawr Lodge

Porth Mawr Lodge is a gatehouse built of red sandstone ashlar for the gate-tower and coursed, squared rubble for the lodge and attached walling. It features an entrance lodge and gateway designed in the style of the courtyard entry of an Elizabethan country house. The gate-tower stands two storeys high and has a slightly off-centre, two-centred archway with a dripmould that has square stops, leading to double oak gates. To the left of the arch, the wall is slightly wider to accommodate the stair, which includes two slit windows. Above the arch, there is a rectangular sunk panel, and above that, a four-light stone mullioned window with lights that have four-centred heads and a dripmould above. The structure also features a stringcourse, a castellated parapet, a turret for the stairhead, and chimneys on either side. The lodge itself is single storey with a lean-to on the inside of the park wall, although this was not visible during inspection. The inner face of the tower was also not seen. The interior has not been observed during the resurvey.