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
85479
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/10/2005
Date of Amendment
20/10/2005
Name of Property
Parkley Lodge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Bronington
Town
Locality
Whitewell
Easting
349328
Northing
341680
Street Side
Location
At the entrance to Parkley Farm on the S side of a minor road between Whitewell and Iscoyd Park, approximately 350 NW of Whitewell church.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Iscoyd Park was purchased in 1843 by Philip Lake Godsal, a Cheltenham coach builder, an estate of 202 acres (82 hectares) comprising mansion house with park, and cottages and smallholdings. Over subsequent decades farms were acquired from neighbouring landowners, mainly during the ownership of Philip William Godsal, who inherited in 1858 and died in 1896. In 1895 it was reported to the Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouthshire that the Iscoyd Park estate, now expanded to 887 acres (359 hectares), had 9 farms. Of these 'six new farmhouses, bricked and slated, and homesteads to them, have been built new entirely' and 'sixteen cottages and buildings for pigs and cows have been erected'.
Parkley Lodge is dated 1867.
Exterior
A 1½-storey cottage of brick with steep tile roof on overhanging eaves, and central brick stack. The gable-end front and side wall facing the road are of chequer-work red and white brick, and the cottage has a continuous dentil band between storeys. Openings have segmental heads. In the gable-end front the boarded door is offset to the R, with 2-light casement windows to the L and above. Beneath the apex is a tablet inscribed 'PWG 1867'. The 2-window R side wall facing the road has 3-light windows, to the R of which a rear lean-to has a replacement window. The lean-to has a 2-light mid C20 steel-framed window in place of an original doorway. The L side wall of the cottage has an inserted half-glazed door to the L and 2 narrow replacement windows.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved C19 cottage characteristic of the Iscoyd Park estate style, and for its contribution to the distinctive historic character of the district provided by surviving estate buildings, which together provide a good example of estate-sponsored improvement.
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