Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rhosberse Lodge at Entrance to West drive at Plas Power
Coedpoeth, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bersham, Coedpoeth, Wrexham, designated on 30 January 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 January 1992
- Locality
- Bersham
- Community
- Coedpoeth
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.04403, -3.05886
- Cadw reference
- 1740
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 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the western boundary of the Plas Power Estate; set back from Rhosberse Road, approximately 0.75km S of A525 near Coedpoeth.
History
The Lodge lies on the N side of the drive beyond the iron railings and gates that close the drive entrance and is attached to the stone boundary wall of the park.
Plas Power was completely remodelled in 1858 for Thomas Lloyd Fitzhugh by John Gibson, architect, of London, and was demolished in 1946-7. Rhosberse Lodge is contemporary with this remodelling and the associated improvements to the estate, and is therefore believed to be by the same architect.
Exterior
Picturesque Tudor Gothic style, single storey L-plan lodge of consciously random rubble construction with plinth. Slate roofs with fishscale bands and cresting; crenellated stone chimney stacks. Gables to each elevation with distinctive undulating bargeboards further ornamented by dentilling and pendants and finials. Fine, diamond-paned, mullioned and transomed windows, 3-light to front gable and 2-light set back to left.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well preserved lodge to Plas Power, which is a good example of the Picturesque style favoured in the mid C19 improvements to the estate.
Nearby in the register
- Railings and Gates to West Entrance Drive at Plas PowerDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wall to Plas Power Park SW of Rhosberse LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Nant BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Offa's Dyke: Section in Plas Power ParkLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.