Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefn Park Lodge
Abenbury, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cefn, Abenbury, Wrexham, designated on 12 September 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 12 September 1996
- Locality
- Cefn
- Community
- Abenbury
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.04501, -2.96411
- Cadw reference
- 17273
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located to the east side of Cefn Road on the private drive to Cefn Park, and behind decorative iron gates. The lodge is one of two on the Cefn Road which formerly served the Cefn Park estate.
History
Mid to late C19 gate lodge to the Cefn Park estate
Exterior
Two storey, red brick built Neo-Classical gate lodge with possible influence of the work of C R Cockerell. Stone dressings; slate roof with brick chimney stack wide projecting eaves supported on cast-iron brackets and chimney stack. To the front elevation is a Roman Doric loggia of two columns and two pillars surmounted by a wide stone entablature. Recessed first floor thermal window.
Interior
Internal inspection not possible at time of re-survey in 1996.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a C19 lodge, and for group value with Cefn Park.
Nearby in the register
- Gates and gate-piers at Cefn Park LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cefn Park (including attached stableyard range to N)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Pavilion including attached Skittle Alley at Cefn ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ice-house to NW of Llwyn Onn Hall HotelDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.