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
2748
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/10/1976
Date of Amendment
08/08/2000
Name of Property
Castle Lodge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Caldicot
Town
Newport
Locality
Caldicot
Easting
348918
Northing
188330
Street Side
NW
Location
At the Chepstow Road entrance to Caldicot Castle and about 300m south east of it.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built c1905-10 by J R Cobb of Caldicot Castle and as an entrance lodge to the castle park. The castle was restored and rebuilt in varying degrees in the next twenty years. J R Cobb appears to have been his own architect. It continued to be occupied by the Cobb family until 1963 when it was bought by the Chepstow Rural District Council on the insistance of the Clerk, the local antiquary T T Birbeck. The castle and grounds became a public park and the lodge was sold.
Exterior
Built of brick with plastered pseudo timber-framing and with a red plain tile roof. Central entrance to a 2-storey single depth cross gabled range with a contemporary service wing and a later C20 extension behind. The ledged door in a chamfered frame is in a gabled timber porch with bargeboards. This is flanked by 4-light mullion-and-transom windows, all with plain glazing. A continuous jetty on brackets supports the first floor, each bracket carrying a vertical timber. Paired 2-light windows in the central gable above, a planted kingpost rises between the windows. Plain bargeboards to the roof gables, central cluster stack with four moulded terracotta shafts. The gable end has another planted king post as above, with a small oriel below. The roof forms a pentice over a small recessed outshut on the north-east side.
Rear elevation with some alteration.
Interior
Interior not inspected at the time of resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved Edwardian park lodge and for its historical association with J R Cobb and Caldicot Castle.
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