Lodge at Crogen Hall including adjoining Wall and Gatepiers

Cadw's description

Location

Located on the roadside at the entrance to the eastern drive to Crogen Hall.

History

Late Victorian lodge with adjoining wall and gatepiers, the latter probably of the late C17.

Exterior

Two-storey rectangular lodge in Tudor style, with a ground floor of rough-dressed, snecked slatestone and an upper storey of faux decorative timber-framing. Steeply-pitched tiled roof with oversailing eaves and verges and decorative wooden pendant-finials (that to front gable with finial section missing); central chimney with paired red brick stacks, off-set on a rectangular stone base. The ground floor has a double-chamfered plinth; the upper floor sits upon a moulded sill. The drive-facing side has a canted single-storey bay window off-centre to the L. This has a tiled canopy roof supported on curved, chamfered brackets; chamfered small rectangular lights to each face with octagonal leading, similar window to R.

The front (E) gable has an entrance to the R raised up behind 4 steps; boarded door. This is contained within a gabled open porch having shaped, flat, pierced balusters to narrow sides; ogee-chamfered, depressed, Tudor-arched tie beam with king post and curved braces. Wooden cross windows to the L of the entrance and to the centre of the first-floor, the latter slightly projecting in the form of a shallow rectangular oriel; corbelled sill and sloped lintel. Three-light window to the first-floor rear (W) gable, with geometric leaded casements. Decorative framing painted on this gable end, applied timbering to the remainder. The road-facing (S) elevation has a central oriel to the first floor, as before, contained within a large gabled dormer with finial. Plain-glazed 2-light windows flank this on the ground floor.

Adjoining the E gable end and flush to the S is a single-storey addition of rough-dressed rubble with shallow mono-pitch felt roof; skylights. Two modern windows to the drive side (N) and a multi-pane window to the road side (S); entrance to the E.

Adjoining the lodge to the E and curving around to the N in a short arc is a rubble wall with rough slatestone copings. This wall predates the lodge and forms part of the former Crogen Hall park wall; it terminates in a pair of C17 squat, square gatepiers which stand at the entrance to the E drive. The wall varies in height between 1.2 and 1.7m. The piers are of rough-dressed, coursed slatestone blocks, and stand to an approximate height of 2m; shallow pyramidal cappings with surmounting sandstone ball finials. Between the piers hangs a late C19 X-braced, stopped-chamfered wooden gate.

Reason for designation

Listed for its special interest as a well-conceived late Victorian Neo-Tudor lodge retaining good original external character, with associated, probably late C17 gatepiers.