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
20211
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Llwyn-y-cil Lodge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Chirk Castle
Easting
328086
Northing
337703
Street Side
W
Location
The lodge stands within the gates, on the N side and facing the drive.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
The Lodge was built in 1888, when the main driveway to Chirk Castle was moved from New Hall Lodge, at the same time as the main gate screen.
Exterior
Built in a picturesque Tudor Domestic style of decorative timber square-panel framing with diagonal braces forming lozenges, set on a sandstone plinth. Red tile roof. Single storey, a balanced asymmetrical design of 3 bays comprising a central recessed entrance porch with a 3-bay timber arcade, the arches and posts carved in a Jacobean style, and low balustrades, all underpinning a shaped gable with central oak cartouche. Central studded oak door and black stained oak dado panelling each side. The left bay has a small gable jettied over a rose-carved jetty beam. The right hand bay is slightly set forward and fully gabled above an oak-leaf carved jetty beam. Below a canted oriel window with moulded mullions and transoms. All glazing is leaded. The E end gable is similarly gabled, the jetty bressumer carved with vines, and a timber window with a cornice below. Central ribbed brick stack.
Interior
The interior has some C17 panelling from the demolished house at Cefn-y-wern.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of Tudor Domestic Revival style adapted for a park lodge, and placed in the highly picturesque context of the main entrance to the park. Of group value with the Main Gates to Chirk Castle.
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