Deerpark Lodge

Cadw's description

Location

The lodge is on the original S aproach driveway from Baddy's Gate along the escarpment of the Afon Ceiriog to the Castle, placed where the drive passes through the boundary wall to the deer park.

History

Deerpark Lodge, also known as Middle Lodge, was built c1888 on the original access driveway first laid out by William Emes in the 1760s.

Exterior

The lodge is built in a Tudor Domestic style of timber framing with white painted infill panels, set on a stone plinth wall. Ruabon type red tile roof, sprocketed over the front verandah. L-plan, with a boarded door in the angle under an open verandah supported on timber posts. Three and 4-light paned timber windows. The framing is decorative, and includes curved braces within the panels. Stone stack on the E gable end with offsetting steps and a brick flue, a fire window at the side facing up the road. The rear is gabled above battered stone walls taking up the steeply falling ground to the S.

Reason for designation

Included as a picturesque late C19 lodge, which forms part of the park improvements of the later C19, and of group value with the deer park wall.