13944

 

II  

Designated  

06/10/1977  

20/07/2000  

Lodge at Faendre Hall  

 

Cardiff  

Trowbridge  

Cardiff  

St Mellons  

324438  

182150  

S  

By the main entrance gates of Faendre Hall off Vaendre Close; St Mellons golf course is opposite.  

Domestic  

 

Probably contemporary with house built 1850.  

Small lodge in Gothic Revival style. Built of stone rubble with ashlar dressings; deep and steeply pitched roof of shaped Welsh slates and elaborate terracotta cresting with finials and with very decorative bargeboards to the gables and deeply overhanging boarded eaves; wide stack with offsets rising from eaves dominates the rear elevation. Single storey and attic. Windows are narrow lights in ashlar surround, some with shouldered heads; they are mostly of 2 panes, the lower opening, the upper fixed, some with leading. Main entrance elevation facing drive has to left a gable over single-light first floor window; at centre a gabled porch with pierced side lights; Tudor-arched doorways, the inner of which has a boarded door with very decorative hinges; to right is a single-light ground floor window with chamfered surround. To right, gable end overlooking lane has a single light window to first floor and a two-light cross window to ground floor. To left, gable end facing house has single lights on each floor.  

 

Listed as an almost completely unaltered lodge serving the main house; group value with other listed items at Faendre, especially the Entrance Gateway which adjoins.