Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lodge at Craig-y-parc
Pentyrch, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2000
- Locality
- Craig-y-parc
- Community
- Pentyrch
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.51992, -3.30472
- Cadw reference
- 22820
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the N entrance to the house and gardens of Craig-y-parc and reached by a lane leading from the Pentyrch road junction.
History
Designed by C E Mallows c 1915 as part of the Craig-y-parc development of house and gardens for Thomas Evans.
Exterior
Gatehouse forming entrance to Craig-y-parc and providing offices and staff accommodation on 2 storeys. Built of coursed snecked mostly red sandstone with rockfaced dressings to ground floor and slate/tile hung first floor; steep-pitched hipped roof of small slates with boarded overhanging eaves, ridge and substantial end external stacks of grey rockfaced stone. Casement windows have leaded quarries in wooden frames in multiple lights with tiled hoods and sills, a similar simpler version of the main house: ground floor has a 3-light and a 5-light window each side of the wide gateway; first floor has two 4-light windows on each side with paired 3-light windows over the gateway - all these set close under the overhanging eaves. N facing entrance elevation is plainer with 2 long hipped roofed full dormers. Gateway interior is limewashed and has doorways each side named Ty'r Garth and Ty Heulog with vertically panelled doors. A fine pair of decorative gates of scrolled ironwork swept to centre have matching side panels; small flanking walls forming an entrance extend from frontage.
Interior
Ground floor has small offices some retaining grates.
Reason for designation
Listed as an integral part of the Craig-y-parc development; group value with the house and other listed graden features.
Nearby in the register
- Walls and gatepiers to courtyard entrance at Craig-y-parcGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Craig-y-parc HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden terrace and steps at Craig-y-parcGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Loggia at Craig-y-parc and attached terrace walls and stepsGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.