Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wern Lodge
Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Wern, Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, designated on 15 June 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 June 1993
- Locality
- Wern
- Town
- Dolbenmaen
- Community
- Dolbenmaen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.93539, -4.17196
- Cadw reference
- 4629
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The lodge stands back from the road, N of the railway bridge on the S approach drive to Wern, and faces the main, south, drive at its gated entrance.
History
Wern Manor is a small country house built by John Douglas of Chester in 1892 for the mining engineer R M Greaves. The lodge stands on the main approach driveway from the S and may predate the reconstruction of the house, as the style is that adopted by James Brynker in the earlier C19 (Wern formed part of the Brynkir estate during the C19).
Exterior
Built of rubble stonework with a slate roof. Single-storey and attic lodge with wide bracketed eaves. The gabled front is set forward between the lean-to side wings, and has distinctive wave-pattern bargeboards, pendant and tall finial; this detail is continued either side on the lean-to wings. The front has circular window with leaded glazing over a patterned-slate lean-to porch extending the full width which is ornately bracketed and open-fronted. The central door is flanked by diamond-leaded 2-light windows which are repeated around the corner. The set-back lean-tos either side have fishscale slate hoods over shallow bays with similar glazing. Symmetrical stone chimneys either side of the central block, both pierced.
Interior
Not seen at the time of inspection.
Reason for designation
Included as a C19 lodge in a distinctive architectural idiom and for group value with Wern Manor and associated listed items.
Nearby in the register
- Gates to Wern ManorGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Front Terrace, Balustrade and Steps at Wern ManorGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Courtyard Ranges to the W of Wern Manor, including Stables, Coachhouse and TowerDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wern ManorDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.