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Top Lodge

A Grade II Listed Building in Hanmer, Wrexham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9327 / 52°55'57"N

Longitude: -2.7996 / 2°47'58"W

OS Eastings: 346350

OS Northings: 337558

OS Grid: SJ463375

Mapcode National: GBR 7F.MBGR

Mapcode Global: WH89M.ZK01

Plus Code: 9C4VW6M2+35

Entry Name: Top Lodge

Listing Date: 15 November 2005

Last Amended: 15 November 2005

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 86953

ID on this website: 300086953

Location: To the NE of and beside the main entrance drive to the house, set back from New Road behind the park boundary wall.

County: Wrexham

Community: Hanmer

Community: Hanmer

Locality: Bettisfield Park

Traditional County: Flintshire

Tagged with: Gatehouse

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History

Bettisfield Park was the seat of the Hanmer family and is a house of at least C16 origin. A new S entrance front was built in the late C18, probably by Samuel Wyatt of London. In the mid C19 there were further additions, including a new entrance on the E side, an Italianate tower, and a Tudor-style tower with French pavilion roof. At this time a new entrance drive was created, replacing an earlier SE entrance to the park from the Whitchurch-Ellesmere road. This new entrance is shown on the 1873 Ordnance Survey. Top Lodge stands at this entrance but it was a later addition and is first shown on the 1900 Ordnance Survey.

Exterior

A mildly Gothic 1½-storey lodge of brick with slate roof and central brick stack, which has 3 diagonally-set shafts. The lodge is cruciform in plan, having lower gabled projections in its N and S side walls. The entrance is in the E gable end facing the drive to the main house. On the R side is a doorcase with panelled reveals, panel door and overlight. In the centre is a wood-framed cross window to lower storey and attic. The R side wall facing the road has 2 similar cross windows to the L and R, a similar 3-light window in the gabled bay, and cross window in the attic. The rear gable end also has a cross window.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a lodge retaining C19 character in a prominent position, and for its contribution to the overall historical integrity of buildings at Bettisfield Park.

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