Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
15058
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/11/1994
Date of Amendment
16/11/1994
Name of Property
Wynt Lodge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Hawarden
Town
Locality
Easting
331910
Northing
365583
Street Side
Location
Set back behind the Hawarden Castle park wall.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
By H.S. Goodhart-Rendel for Henry Neville Gladstone, first Baron Gladstone, and Maud Ernestine, Lady Gladstone, the architect's aunt. Built in 1923, in simplified French Renaissance style, apparently following the Gladstones' return from a holiday in France.
Exterior
One and a half storeys under a steeply-pitched hipped roof of dwarf slates, with a central stone stack with moulded cap. Of fine, dressed sandstone, uncoursed. Symmetrical entrance front. Central entrance with plain projecting architrave and simply moulded label. 6-panelled, recessed door. Flanking 20-pane flush sash windows to ground floor with a plain, broad string-course above. Large dormers to entrance and flanking elevations with 16-pane sashes. Stone plaque above entrance inscribed `H.N.G and M.E.G 1923.' Stepped down to the R a single-storey projection with hippedroof as before. Plain recessed entrance via 3 stepps, and with 6-panelled door. Small, 6-pane flush casement to L.
Assymetrical rear (street facing) facade. To the R, and off-centre, a half-round projecting stair turret with conical roof and large, gothic-style window with intersecting tracery. Plain interior.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as an important example of small-scale domestic architecture by this eminent architect.
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