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
20272
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Deerpark Lodge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Chirk Castle
Easting
327579
Northing
337315
Street Side
Location
The lodge is on the original S aproach driveway from Baddy's Gate along the escarpment of the Afon Ceiriog to the Castle, placed where the drive passes through the boundary wall to the deer park.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Deerpark Lodge, also known as Middle Lodge, was built c1888 on the original access driveway first laid out by William Emes in the 1760s.
Exterior
The lodge is built in a Tudor Domestic style of timber framing with white painted infill panels, set on a stone plinth wall. Ruabon type red tile roof, sprocketed over the front verandah. L-plan, with a boarded door in the angle under an open verandah supported on timber posts. Three and 4-light paned timber windows. The framing is decorative, and includes curved braces within the panels. Stone stack on the E gable end with offsetting steps and a brick flue, a fire window at the side facing up the road. The rear is gabled above battered stone walls taking up the steeply falling ground to the S.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a picturesque late C19 lodge, which forms part of the park improvements of the later C19, and of group value with the deer park wall.
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