Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lodge & Gatepiers at driveway to the Old Palace
St. Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1987
- Community
- St. Asaph
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.25650, -3.44543
- Cadw reference
- 1470
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At right angles to the bottom of the street with the main drive to left and Great yard to right.
History
Probably late C18 brick wall extends to rear with stone coping forming boundary wall to Old Palace, curves around at far end beyond and then broken by modern wall.
Exterior
Single storey and attic brick (English Garden wall bond) lodge probably contemporary with 1791 Old Palace with later squared rubble gable-ended front probably contemporary with 1830-1 enlargement. Gable parapet and plinth; slate roof, brick chimney stack heightened in Blore style with twin stone flues. Small-pane sash windows paired to ground floor with sandstone dressings and Tudor hoodmoulds. Rubble plinth to right side with sash and casement windows. Swept roof dormer to left side with casement windows; small pane fixed glazed window below with dressed surround beside pointed arch entrance and boarded door. Brick rear gable end with casement windows and modern extension.
Gate piers to gated drive and Great Yard linked to lodge by narrow sections of brick wall with stone coping. C19 stone piers with finials to left, brick wall extends beyond and curves forward along high street terminating at entrance to garden centre. Plain pointed top gate piers to right and cobbled drive to barn and stables.
Reason for designation
Group value with the Old Palace and listed outbuildings.
Nearby in the register
- Tithe Barn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Sundial in the Churchyard to St .Kentigern & St .Asaph Parish ChurchGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Palace GardensDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mary Short Memorial Drinking FountainCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.