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
22820
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/2000
Date of Amendment
31/01/2000
Name of Property
Lodge at Craig-y-parc
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Pentyrch
Town
Locality
Craig-y-parc
Easting
309571
Northing
180919
Street Side
Location
At the N entrance to the house and gardens of Craig-y-parc and reached by a lane leading from the Pentyrch road junction.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Designed by C E Mallows c 1915 as part of the Craig-y-parc development of house and gardens for Thomas Evans.
Exterior
Gatehouse forming entrance to Craig-y-parc and providing offices and staff accommodation on 2 storeys. Built of coursed snecked mostly red sandstone with rockfaced dressings to ground floor and slate/tile hung first floor; steep-pitched hipped roof of small slates with boarded overhanging eaves, ridge and substantial end external stacks of grey rockfaced stone. Casement windows have leaded quarries in wooden frames in multiple lights with tiled hoods and sills, a similar simpler version of the main house: ground floor has a 3-light and a 5-light window each side of the wide gateway; first floor has two 4-light windows on each side with paired 3-light windows over the gateway - all these set close under the overhanging eaves. N facing entrance elevation is plainer with 2 long hipped roofed full dormers. Gateway interior is limewashed and has doorways each side named Ty'r Garth and Ty Heulog with vertically panelled doors. A fine pair of decorative gates of scrolled ironwork swept to centre have matching side panels; small flanking walls forming an entrance extend from frontage.
Interior
Ground floor has small offices some retaining grates.
Reason for designation
Listed as an integral part of the Craig-y-parc development; group value with the house and other listed graden features.
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