The Lodge Cottages for the Hanbury’s former home of Pontypool House. Picture: Torfaen Museum. THE HOUSES shown here are the Lodge Cottages for the Hanbury’s former home of Pontypool House, described as Town Lodge (as distinguished from the other, former Park Lodge at the Pontymoile Gates). There were three separate cottages within this building at the north entrance to the house and parkland – which you can see from the three chimneys on this photograph. One house faced towards the roadway to the stables (now museum) and Pontypool House (now St Alban’s R C High School), one faced towards Park Road, and the other to what is now the car park but was then a hedged entrance to the blacksmith s workshop to the rear of the stables.