Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
13751
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/05/1975
Date of Amendment
09/10/2001
Name of Property
Park Lodge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Gabalfa
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Gabalfa
Easting
316919
Northing
178299
Street Side
Location
On the left bank of the River Taff at the northern extremity of Cardiff Castle Park.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built 1872-3 for the Bute estate as the north lodge of Cardiff Castle park and probably designed by the estate architect Charles Rigg. The lodge was described as "all built" in a letter of Lord Bute dated 1873 and has been little altered since.
Exterior
Two storey cottage-orne with stone faced walls to ground floor and stone faced chimney at south-east end; the upper floor overhangs on the north-west and south-east sides, and has applied timber-framing with pebbledash infilling. Plain tile roof with half-hip at south-east end round stack; cresting to ridge. Entrance front with transomed 4-light first floor window at south-east end with gable with bargeboard over. Ground floor with 4-light bay window at south-east end; tile canopy over which extends north across front. Four-light leaded window on first floor at the north-west end with gable with cusped bargeboard over.
Interior
Interior not available at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as a good late C19 park lodge which is a part of the important historic landscape of Cardiff Castle Park.
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