Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
13467
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/07/1992
Date of Amendment
18/05/1995
Name of Property
Hafod Lodge to Hensol Castle (Also known as Bottom Lodge)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Pendoylan
Town
Locality
Hensol
Easting
305038
Northing
179247
Street Side
Location
Beside the entrance to the main (East) drive to Hensol Castle, now a hospital and conference centre. Accessed from the by-road to Pendoylan approximately 2km from the M4 motorway.
Description
Broad Class
Health and Welfare
Period
History
Probably contemporary with the 1840's enlargement and remodelling of Hensol Castle which was carried out by T H Wyatt and D Brandon, architects of London. This work was commissioned by the industrialist Rowland Fothergill, who bought the estate in 1838.
Hensol castle has late C17th/earlyC18th origins. The estate passed to the Talbot family and the house was remodelled circa 1735, in an early Picturesque-Gothic manner; after 1790 it was greatly extended continuing the Gothic style. In 1815 it was bought by Benjamin Hall, the industrialist and politician. It was then leased to, and later bought by, the ironmaster William Crawshay, before being bought by Rowland Fothergill, another ironmaster, in 1838 after which time the Wyatt sand Brandon works were carried out. After 1927 the house and extensive park was converted into a mental hospital.
Exterior
Tudor Gothic lodge in a less picturesque style than that of Hensol Castle but almost certainly by the same architects. Possible influence of John Nash whose much publicised 'Cottage style' buildings had become models for individual small scale dwellings and lodges to landscaped parks. Single storey and attic scribed stucco, crossplan building with very wide boarded eaves below a later tiled roof; bargeboards also renewed; enormous stone finial to front and rendered chimneys. Four-centred and square-headed openings with correspondingly varied use of dripmoulds; bracketed cornice to front attic window. Symmetrical main front to south has projecting 2-storey porch to centre with 3-light window over blind shield and four centred doorway; modern door; blocked slit windows high up on return walls. Outer windows are cross frame. Broad projecting gables to West and East side with splayed bay windows; ground windows at rear on both sides have bracketed cornices. Low hipped extension to rear.
Low stone boundary wall with contemporary iron railings ornamented with Gothic finials and barley twist spearheads to base. Swept in towards the drive and with stone end pier and Gothic cusped buttress at right end.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a distinctive mid C19th lodge to a fine landscaped park and for its associations with Hensol Castle.
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