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
5573
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/09/1950
Date of Amendment
13/07/2005
Name of Property
Turret Lodge (pair of lodges)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Beaumaris
Town
Beaumaris
Locality
Baron Hill
Easting
259152
Northing
376424
Street Side
N
Location
On the NE side of a road junction of the B5109 and a minor road to Llanddona, approximately 1.5km W of Beaumaris.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C19 lodges at the W entrance to Baron Hill, and matching the lodges built at Beaumaris Castle, from where there was also a drive to Baron Hill. They are shown on the 1834 map of Beaumaris and the 1844 Tithe plan. Rear wings were added later, first shown on an estate plan of 1861.
Exterior
Two castellated round 1-storey turrets with a gateway between. The turrets are of coursed rubble, with freestone band below the coped battlements. Roofs are missing. Each has a pointed window to the front and rear, now blocked and with painted Gothic glazing bars. Entrances face the drive, but in the L-hand the door is missing and in the R-hand the panel door is no longer fixed. Each turret has an added near square former rear wing, also roofless. On the inner face of each turret is a square freestone gate pier, of which the moulded caps have lost their finials, and replacement iron gate. Rubble-stone boundary walls are attached to the outer sides.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding their deteriorating condition, for their special architectural interest as eyecatcher lodges of definite architectural character in a prominent location, and as an integral component of buildings at Baron Hill.
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