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
26709
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/05/2002
Date of Amendment
31/05/2002
Name of Property
South Lodge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Blackwood
Town
Blackwood
Locality
Maes Manor
Easting
317657
Northing
198864
Street Side
Location
On the S side of the main entrance to Maes Manor, on the W side of a minor road between Blackwood and Bedwellty.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Originally known as Maesruddud, Maes Manor was built in 1900 as an addition to an earlier house and extended in 1907 when the original house was demolished. The second phase was added for L. Brewer Williams by E.P. Warren, architect of London. Between 1907 and 1914 a number of ancillary buildings and garden structures were built by Warren in collaboration with Thomas Mawson, who designed the garden. The lodges beside the main entrance are dated 1912.
Exterior
Arts-and-Crafts influenced 2-storey lodge of roughcast walls incorporating rusticated quoins, and replaced concrete tile roof with overhanging eaves and central roughcast stack. The gabled main range facing E has a short wing under a hipped roof set back on the N side, a porch clasped in the angle between main range and N wing, and a single-storey wing with hipped roof set back on the S side. Windows are metal-framed casements incorporating leaded lights. The open lean-to porch has small-pane glazing to the R side on a dwarf wall. The doorway has a boarded door with studs and strap hinges, and an inserted glazed panel. The L side wall has a 2-light window. The main range has a 2-storey canted bay window in its E gable end incorporating 4-light windows, while between storeys is a tablet dated 1912 in raised numerals. The gable is tile hung. The N wing has, in its N wall, a hipped lean-to canopy over a wooden bench, and 3-light upper storey window. Its rear (W) wall has a 2-light window in the lower storey, while the main range has 2-light windows in each storey to the R of the wing. The rear of the main range has a 3-light hipped canted bay window in the lower storey, 4-light window above, and tile-hung gable.
The L (S) side wall of the main range has an external stack cut down to the eaves, beyond which are casement windows, carried above the eaves under a hipped roof in the upper storey. The 2-window single-storey S wing has a gabled canopy over a half-lit boarded door and is flanked by casements. Its side and rear have similar casements.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of a pair of lodges retaining original character and an integral component of a small Edwardian country estate representing the early C20 prosperity of the mining industry in S Wales.
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