Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gates and gate-piers at 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
- 53.04502, -2.96430
- Cadw reference
- 17274
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 in front of the private drive to Cefn Park and adjacent to Cefn Park Lodge. This Lodge is one of two which formerly served the Cefn Park estate and the only one to retain its gates and gate-piers.
History
Constructed mid to late C19 contemporary with Cefn Park Lodge.
Exterior
Twin stone piers surmounted by ball finials with flattened volutes to the stone coping of the adjacent estate walls. The piers support decorative double wrought-iron gates.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Cefn Park Lodge.
Nearby in the register
- 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.