Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gate Lodge
Bronington, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 20 October 2005
- Locality
- Whitewell
- Community
- Bronington
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.96521, -2.74887
- Cadw reference
- 85460
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 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the entrance to Whitewell Lodge, opposite the junction with a minor road to Crofts Bank.
History
Probably built in the 1830s, contemporary with Whitewell Lodge (originally Oak Bank), and shown on the 1838 Tithe map. A photograph published in 1918 shows a roof entirely of diamond-pattern slates, and iron-frame casement windows with hexagonal- and diamond-pattern glazing bars.
Exterior
A single-storey lodge of brick with rusticated stone quoins, all painted white, and slate roof on wide projecting eaves, retaining original diamond-pattern slates to a hipped projection on the R side of the front and the hipped R end. A brick ridge stack has 2 diagonal shafts. In the 2-window front the R-hand window is recessed within the hipped projection. Both windows have 2-light casements in original openings, and hood moulds. In the R side wall is a similar 2-light window and a boarded door, both under hood moulds. A lean-to has been added to the rear.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a lodge retaining C19 character, and for its contribution to the historical integrity of Whitewell Lodge.
Nearby in the register
- Whitewell parish hallNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- The Old RectoryNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Whitewell Lodge, including arcaded screen to garden and wall to service yardNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Crofts BankNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.