Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bodawen Lodge
Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1951
- Locality
- Porthmadog
- Town
- Porthmadog
- Community
- Porthmadog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.93507, -4.13394
- Cadw reference
- 4438
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Approximately 500m N of Porthmadog station, at the entrance of a drive to Bodawen.
History
Nos 1-2 Bodawen Lodge are a pair of early C19 houses shown on the 1842 Tithe map. They subsequently became a lodge (although probably still 2 dwellings) for Bodawen, a house built in the 3rd quarter of the C19, and are shown as such on the 1871 Tremadog estate plan and 1888 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of 1-2 Bodawen Lodge.
A reflected pair of 2-storey 2-window cottages of squared blocks of quarried stone laid in regular courses and painted white, hipped slate roof on slightly overhanging eaves, and stone end stacks. A central half-glazed lean-to porch has door with glazed panels to each house. On the outer sides are 2-light casement windows in original openings. Upper-storey windows retain earlier diamond-pattern wooden glazing bars, and are horizontal sliding sashes to each end, a fixed window L of centre (No 2) and a 2-light casement R of centre (No 1). End walls have added lean-tos, of which the R-hand is set back.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as one of a pair of early C19 houses retaining definite character and distinctive fenestration.
Nearby in the register
- Bodawen LodgeNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Former stable at Bodawen LodgeNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Porthmadog war memorial, including steps, trilithon and monoliths forming its approachNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Snowdon LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.