Lodge of Pen-y-fal is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 June 1992. Lodge.
Lodge of Pen-y-fal
- WRENN ID
- sharp-barrel-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1992
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge of Pen-y-fal, Abergavenny
- OS grid reference
- SO 305 143
- Coordinates
- 51.82306, -3.00923
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Lodge of Pen-y-fal is a Gothic style building constructed in the 19th century, made from local coursed squared red sandstone rubble with Bath freestone dressings. It features a natural slate roof and stone chimney stacks. The lodge is L-shaped, comprising a single storey and an attic.
The south-east front, which faces the road, has a gabled wing on the left and the main entrance on the right. There are two-light windows in the gable, with a quatrefoil oculus in the upper floor and trefoil heads to the lights. The main roof extends at right angles, creating an asymmetrical north-east gable with a triangular dormer that has a trefoil light.
The porch has a flat parapet adorned with a ballflower cornice that continues around a square gate pier at the corner, which also features a trefoil band and a swept pyramidal cap with a finial. The pointed arch doorway has a stopped dripmould, with a narrow window to the left. There is an additional entrance, which is half-glazed, located around the corner behind the gate post, featuring a chamfered arch.
On the north-east gable, facing the drive, there is a similar two-light upper window above a splayed bay that is unusually set back in a splayed recess, with small pointed arches over the splays on either side. The lodge has steeply pitched roofs with coped gables and large stone chimney stacks, including one on the ridge and a lateral one with offsets on the left return. The gable facing the church has modern windows, and there is a short section of wall to the left that has been repointed. The interior was not inspected during the resurvey.
Local climate
Lodge of Pen-y-fal receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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