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
5458
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/01/1968
Date of Amendment
23/04/1998
Name of Property
Grand Lodge of Plas Newydd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Llanddaniel Fab
Town
Locality
Plas Newydd Estate
Easting
252709
Northing
371154
Street Side
Location
Set back slightly on the S side of the A4080 Brynsiencyn Road, behind the walls of Plas Newydd and at the entrance to the Grand Drive.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
This Lodge serves the Grand Drive to Plas Newydd and was probably built in the mid C19 to match the architectural style of the 1805 gateway. It replaced an earlier building on the same site. The Plas Newydd Estate was one of the largest estates on Anglesey, passing to the Bagenal family in 1553 and through marriage to the Bayly family in the C18. In 1812 the estate passed to Henry William, Lord Uxbridge's eldest son; Henry was created 1st Marquess of Anglesey in 1815, and his descendants inherited both estate and title. A number of improvements to the buildings of the estate followed the completion of the main house at Plas Newydd in the early C19.
Exterior
Two storey, L-plan lodge in robust Gothick style, with full-height, 3 window canted bay to left and gabled porch in angle. Walls of rock-faced, snecked limestone with chamfered plinth; moulded sill band, hood bands and cornice, and embattled parapet with roll-top moulded copings. Limestone architraves with ears and shoulders. Hipped slate roof, pyramidal over bay. Rectangular stack to left side, partly protruding and offset to the front, with incised cross at 1st floor level. Windows throughout are 2-pane sashes. Porch has stepped diagonal buttress; boarded door in a pointed Gothic arch with moulded hood band, pedimented and with raking battlements. Over the door are the Anglesey Arms.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a strongly detailed mid C19 lodge house, which forms part of a coherent group with the adjacent entrance archway.
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