Lodge at Faendre Hall, Trowbridge, Cardiff

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5332 / 51°31'59"N

Longitude: -3.0907 / 3°5'26"W

OS Eastings: 324438

OS Northings: 182150

OS Grid: ST244821

Mapcode National: GBR J1.GR7Z

Mapcode Global: VH7BJ.CQXJ

Plus Code: 9C3RGWM5+7P

Entry Name: Lodge at Faendre Hall

Listing Date: 6 October 1977

Last Amended: 20 July 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 13944

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300013944

Location: By the main entrance gates of Faendre Hall off Vaendre Close; St Mellons golf course is opposite.

County: Cardiff

Town: Cardiff

Community: Trowbridge

Locality: St Mellons

Built-Up Area: Cardiff

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

Tagged with: Gatehouse

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History

Probably contemporary with house built 1850.

Exterior

Small lodge in Gothic Revival style. Built of stone rubble with ashlar dressings; deep and steeply pitched roof of shaped Welsh slates and elaborate terracotta cresting with finials and with very decorative bargeboards to the gables and deeply overhanging boarded eaves; wide stack with offsets rising from eaves dominates the rear elevation. Single storey and attic. Windows are narrow lights in ashlar surround, some with shouldered heads; they are mostly of 2 panes, the lower opening, the upper fixed, some with leading. Main entrance elevation facing drive has to left a gable over single-light first floor window; at centre a gabled porch with pierced side lights; Tudor-arched doorways, the inner of which has a boarded door with very decorative hinges; to right is a single-light ground floor window with chamfered surround. To right, gable end overlooking lane has a single light window to first floor and a two-light cross window to ground floor. To left, gable end facing house has single lights on each floor.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as an almost completely unaltered lodge serving the main house; group value with other listed items at Faendre, especially the Entrance Gateway which adjoins.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Entrance Gateway at Faendre Hall
Fronting the lane and adjacent to the lodge, forming the entrance to a curved drive to the house.
II Former Stable Block at Faendre Hall
Situated to the rear of the Hall, the drive bifurcating with one section leading to the stables and the other to the Hall.
II Circular garden seat at Faendre Hall
Situated at the SE side of the house close to the drive and on the terrace which runs along the main garden (SW) frontage.
II Faendre Hall
Set in extensive grounds, though only a proportion surrounding the house is maintained as garden, separated from the main estate development by Cypress Drive and reached by a drive from Vaendre Close
II Pwll-coch farmhouse and adjoining barn
Reached by a short drive from the road, on sloping ground.
II White Oaks (aka Rosminian Convent)
At the end of a short lane now fronting the A48 dual carriageway.
II* St John's College (formerly Ty-to-Maen)
Set in the remains of the formerly more extensive gardens, reached by a drive from a road created to serve the late C20 surrounding housing. development.
II Garden Terrace at St John's College (formerly Ty-to-Maen)
In front of the main frontage and incorporating steps to the lawn at lower level.

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Lodge at Faendre Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Trowbridge, Cardiff