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
26399
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/03/2002
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
South Zion Lodge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213184
Northing
200872
Street Side
E
Location
Situated on the E side of The Norton approximately half way between Gas Lane and The Croft.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Former lodge of about 1875, to Sion House burnt out 24/3/1938 and subsequently demolished. Sion House was the largest private house in Tenby, built c1791 by John Nash for William Routh, publisher of The Bristol Journal. Owned by Henry Mannix in 1830s and 1840s, extended with a wing in 1870 for Richard Fothergill, ironmaster, and MP for Merthyr, after which the lodge is thought to have been built. It was the second lodge, the earlier North Lodge being now called Zion House, and is not marked on an estate plan of 1872. South Zion Lodge was occupied by Haydn Lewis Esq in 1926.
Exterior
House, former lodge to Sion House, painted stucco, two storeys and 3 bays with slate roof behind parapet. Italianate style, with plain cornice on rounded corbels, long rusticated quoins, raised plinth and raised channelled doorcase with keystone over tall narrow arched doorway and plain flat cornice over (at sill level of first floor centre window). C20 door and cambered-headed overlight, plate glass sashes.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a well-designed small stuccoed Italianate lodge.
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