Grafton Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 February 1994. Church.

Grafton Lodge

WRENN ID
nether-ember-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 February 1994
Type
Church
Address
Grafton Lodge, 21 Fairfield Avenue, Rhyl
OS grid reference
SJ 010 818
Coordinates
53.32385, -3.48758
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Grafton Lodge is a two-storey building with lined-out render and slate roofs. It features a hipped roof over the central range and gabled ends with plain bargeboards, as well as axial and end wall stacks. The plan is asymmetrical due to a series of extensions to the original structure. The entrance range is short and flanked by asymmetrical gables, with an advanced gable on the west side. The earliest part of the building is likely the entrance range, which has lower internal ceiling heights.

The entrance is located to the right in a full-height advanced bay, featuring a shallow four-centred arched doorway, with the arched form also appearing in the door panels. The windows consist of paired eight-pane hornless sashes with a slim central mullion, a design that is consistently used on the first floor and likely dates from a remodelling in the late 19th century. To the left, there is a canted bay window in a recessed section, showcasing fine glazing bars on the sash window, with paired sashes on the first floor and an oversailing roof above.

The small advanced left-hand gable has a wide floor-length tripartite sash window with fine glazing bars, along with a paired sash window above. The advanced wider right-hand gable features inserted French doors, which probably replaced a similar window, and a paired sash window above. This gable is balanced by the outer gable to the left and has a roof that is at right angles to the gabled frontage, indicating a wing added in the later 19th century. There is also a door and window opening onto a conservatory, which is a later addition or replacement, and an upper window similar to those in the main body of the house, but with horned sashes.

Local climate

Grafton Lodge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% 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 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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