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
18660
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
05/08/1997  
Date of Amendment
05/08/1997  
Name of Property
Betws Lodge  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Conwy  
Community
Abergele  
Town
Abergele  
Locality
Gwrych  
Easting
292561  
Northing
376565  
Street Side
SE  
Location
Gwrych Castle park boundary wall rises steeply to 138m along the road to Rhyd-y-foel. Betws Lodge lies outside the wall line, approximately 100m short of the junction of the road to Rhyd-y-foel centre.  

Description


Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces  
Period
 

History
Gwrych Castle was created by Lloyd Bamford Hesketh in association with Thomas Rickman from 1816. The boundary wall, with its various lodges and gates probably followed the main building's completion in c1822, although works continued until c1850. Betws Lodge forms the dramatic entrance to woodland outside the park, which was probably a hunting and shooting reserve.  

Exterior
A long front to the road, with a central chamfered 4-centred carriage arch set between twice offsetting buttresses, between which is an outset parapet on stone brackets, simulating machicolations, and is reduced in height at the centre. Outside the buttresses the parapet deepens dramatically, the outsetting brackets set low, and the wall extends to quasi-end towers, where the offsetting parapet returns to its former height. The intermediate section each side has sturdy raking buttresses at the mid point.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as an important element in the total setting of the Grade I Gwrych Castle, and of special interest in the history of the picturesque movement.  

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