Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Acton Park Lodge
Acton, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Acton, Wrexham, designated on 31 January 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1994
- Community
- Acton
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.05960, -2.98983
- Cadw reference
- 1749
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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
Set back to one side of Acton Park gates.
History
Built as a lodge to Acton Park and dated 1887. Its neo-vernacular style is strongly influenced by Douglas, but the architect is not known.
Exterior
Coursed and squared stone with red tiled roof. Single storeyed with upper floor entirely within the roof. Mansard roof over main range, the upper slope continuing as a hipped catslide over recessed entrance range to left, and forming a porch carried on timber brackets in front of recessed door. Small 2-light mullioned windows light the entrance hall and room to its rear, the main ground floor room has canted mullioned bay window with hipped roof forming apron of gabled dormer above. Simliar dormer window with date and initials in pargetting of gable over entrance range. Stack on centre of roof.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of neo-vernacular estate architecture.
Group value with Acton Park Gates.
Nearby in the register
- Entrance Screen to former drive of Acton DriveDomesticunder 1 mi
- 71 Acton GateDomesticunder 1 mi
- 69 Acton GateDomesticunder 1 mi
- 67 Acton GateDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.