Photos taken by members of the Carrel family showing the south east aspect of Pencerrig, the main driveway and East Lodge.

The iron gates at the entrance of the driveway and the stone globes on top of the pillars had to be removed after lorries kept hitting them - the gateway was designed for horses and carriages not 20th century vehicles.

There was a second driveway located about 50 yards up the main road toward Builth Wells which might have been the original approach to the house and later became the route used by tradesmen as its smooth stone surface was never replaced with tarmac.  The Lodge here was smaller than East Lodge and its occupant, Miss Brown, had lived there all her life.  

The old driveway ran parallel to the main driveway until it branched off at the middle gate and circled behind a high wall to the South of the house, it dropped down past the stables and joined the old Pencerrig drive which led to Cwmbach (this would have been the route Clara Thomas used to attend church when she was residing at Pencerrig). Along this tradesman’s drive at the rear of the house, below the servants quarters, there were three doors, one opened into the garden, the next opened into the coal cellar and the last was direct access to the servants wing.

The old driveway was the route we always used for groups of pony trekkers leaving and returning to the stables.  It was also the main access to the ponies fields which were located to the South of the hotel.