Castle Lodge

Location

At the Chepstow Road entrance to Caldicot Castle and about 300m south east of it.

History

Built c1905-10 by J R Cobb of Caldicot Castle and as an entrance lodge to the castle park. The castle was restored and rebuilt in varying degrees in the next twenty years. J R Cobb appears to have been his own architect. It continued to be occupied by the Cobb family until 1963 when it was bought by the Chepstow Rural District Council on the insistance of the Clerk, the local antiquary T T Birbeck. The castle and grounds became a public park and the lodge was sold.

Exterior

Built of brick with plastered pseudo timber-framing and with a red plain tile roof. Central entrance to a 2-storey single depth cross gabled range with a contemporary service wing and a later C20 extension behind. The ledged door in a chamfered frame is in a gabled timber porch with bargeboards. This is flanked by 4-light mullion-and-transom windows, all with plain glazing. A continuous jetty on brackets supports the first floor, each bracket carrying a vertical timber. Paired 2-light windows in the central gable above, a planted kingpost rises between the windows. Plain bargeboards to the roof gables, central cluster stack with four moulded terracotta shafts. The gable end has another planted king post as above, with a small oriel below. The roof forms a pentice over a small recessed outshut on the north-east side.
Rear elevation with some alteration.

Interior

Interior not inspected at the time of resurvey.

Reason for designation

Included as a well-preserved Edwardian park lodge and for its historical association with J R Cobb and Caldicot Castle.