Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wynt Lodge
Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1994
- Community
- Hawarden
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.18297, -3.02035
- Cadw reference
- 15058
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back behind the Hawarden Castle park wall.
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.
Reason for designation
Listed as an important example of small-scale domestic architecture by this eminent architect.
Nearby in the register
- 43 Glynne WayDomesticunder 1 mi
- 41 Glynne WayDomesticunder 1 mi
- 39 Glynne WayDomesticunder 1 mi
- 37 Glynne WayDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.