Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
5813
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/03/1976
Date of Amendment
06/06/2001
Name of Property
Happy Valley Lodge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llandudno
Town
Locality
Llandudno
Easting
278183
Northing
383141
Street Side
Location
About 300m NW of pier, forming entrance to Marine Drive.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A pedestrian path, Cust's Path, had been engineered in the cliff faces of the Great Orme in the 1850's, so vertiginous that Gladstone complained that he had had to blindfolded in order to be led along certain sections. In 1872, The Great Orme's Head Marine Drive Co was inaugurated to convert the path to a carriage drive. Work began in September 1875, and was completed in 1878.
Exterior
Lodge faced with rusticated stone blocks of different rectangular and square sizes. Embattled parapets with mock machicolation. Northern part in form of a three-storey tower; in its north-east elevation there is a two-light stone mullioned window with stone lintel on both second and first floors and a three-light mullioned window on ground floor; its south-east elevation has a two-light window on second floor and, to left hand, at right angles and extending to the south-east, a lower two storey wing with hipped slate roof and red tile cresting. Porch in angle between the two wings with a pointed doorway of stone and a panelled door. Two-storey wing with a two-light stone mullion window both above and below, both in north-east and south-east elevations.
Interior
Reason for designation
Well-preserved late C19 toll lodge. Group value with adjacent toll office.
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