Nant-y-Bella Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 November 1997. Gate lodge. 2 related planning applications.
Nant-y-Bella Lodge
- WRENN ID
- burning-crypt-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1997
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- Nant-y-Bella Lodge, Gwrych Castle, Abergele, Llanddulas and Rhyd-Y-Foel, LL22 8ET
- OS grid reference
- SH 933 771
- Coordinates
- 53.28074, -3.60067
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Nant-y-Bella Lodge is a gate lodge built from local limestone rubble. It features a main residential section and a squat cylindrical tower, positioned to the left and right of the driveway, respectively. The main part is a square tower topped with crenellated battlements, and it has a tall cylindrical watch-tower attached to the north at the front. The watch-tower has a double-corbelled upper stage that mimics machicolations and a shallow conical slate roof, along with a small brown brick chimney at the rear.
The front of the lodge includes a pointed-arched window with a cusped cast-iron frame, designed by Rickman and cast at the Mersey Iron Foundry, as well as a similar window on the inner return of the main tower, which has a Tudor-arched entrance below. To the south of the watch-tower, there is a later rubble park boundary wall, and a modern storeyed extension has been added to the rear of the main block. The cylindrical tower to the north features a corbelled upper section but does not have battlements. Half-round stone gatepiers are located next to both the cylindrical tower and the watch-tower, although the gates are missing.
Local climate
Nant-y-Bella Lodge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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