Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St Benedict's Lodge
Llanasa, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Talacre, Holywell, Llanasa, Flintshire, designated on 30 April 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 April 2001
- Locality
- Talacre
- Town
- Holywell
- Community
- Llanasa
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.33772, -3.34804
- Cadw reference
- 25100
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1885 · OS One-Inch (Hills) 1885-1903 (National Library of Scotland)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
Approximately 200m SW of Talacre Abbey, on the SE side of the main driveway to the house from Gronant.
History
Talacre Abbey was built 1824-9 by Thomas Jones, architect, for Sir Edward Mostyn, on the site of an earlier house. Jones also designed a number of estate buildings, including the Home Farm, and probably also designed St Benedict's Lodge, which is shown on the 1839 Tithe map. It stood at the end of a long drive from the SE of the park, of which adjacent gate piers remain, but the corresponding gate piers and lodge at the SE end of the park are ruinous.
Exterior
A single-storey former lodge nearly square in plan, of tooled coursed stone (painted white) and a pyramidal roof of graded slates, with projecting eaves and central paired stone stack. The roof projects on thin iron posts, creating a covered verandah around the front and L side of the house. Openings, all beneath the eaves, are boarded up. To the front is a central doorway with flanking windows. The L side wall has 2 windows and a doorway to the rear in a projecting rear wing with hipped roof. This wing has a single side window and 2 windows to the rear. Behind the main house is a projecting lean-to with single rear window. The R side wall of the lodge has 2 windows.
Reason for designation
Listed as the best-preserved of the lodges at Talacre Abbey, and and as an integral component of the landscape park associated with Talacre Abbey.
Nearby in the register
- Gate piers S of St Benedict's LodgeGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Kennels, cottage and saw mill at Talacre Abbey (also known as The Kennels)Industrialunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding on NE side of Home Farm at Talacre AbbeyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Riding school & stable at Talacre AbbeyDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.