Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Park Lodge
Gabalfa, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1975
- Locality
- Gabalfa
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Gabalfa
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.49750, -3.19822
- Cadw reference
- 13751
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the left bank of the River Taff at the northern extremity of Cardiff Castle Park.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Parish Church of St MarkReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Vicarage to Parish Church of St MarkReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Mill HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Catholic Church of St JosephReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.