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
18685
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/08/1997
Date of Amendment
05/08/1997
Name of Property
Dinorben Lodge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Abergele
Town
Abergele
Locality
Dinorben
Easting
297024
Northing
374614
Street Side
E
Location
The lodge is set on the S side of the W entrance to Kinmel Park, approximately 1300m S of the village of St George.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The lodge was built for H R Hughes in 1858.
Exterior
Built of polygonal limestone, with oolite dressings and slate roofs. Single storey, 'Z'-plan, comprising a forward gabled wing on the left (E) facing the drive, having a canted and hipped bay window, and an adjoining gabled porch. Boarded and nailed door in a chamfered reveal, with label over, stepping over a recessed panel with the carved cursive monogram of HRH on a shield. Mullioned and transomed timber windows, probably of the early C20. Carved openwork bargeboards with terminal spikes. The left bay has a part-external gable stack, carrying a stone panel with the date, and a rear gabled service wing.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good Victorian park lodge, of special interest as one of the variety of styles of such lodges employed early on on the Kinmel Estate.
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