Grafton Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 February 1994. Lodge.
Grafton Lodge
- WRENN ID
- third-paling-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1994
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Grafton Lodge, 23 Fairfield Avenur, Rhyl
- OS grid reference
- SJ 010 818
- Coordinates
- 53.32389, -3.48772
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Grafton Lodge is a two-storey building featuring lined-out render and slate roofs. The roof is hipped over the central range and gabled on the sides, with plain bargeboards and axial and end wall stacks. The building has an asymmetrical plan due to a series of extensions to the original structure. The entrance range is short and flanked by asymmetrical gables, with a further advanced gable to the west. 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 4-centred arched doorway, with the arched shape repeated in the door panels. The windows consist of paired 8-pane hornless sashes with a slim central mullion, a design that is consistently used on the first floor and likely dates from a remodelling of the house in the later 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 includes 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, likely replacing a similar window, with a paired sash window above. This gable is balanced by the outer gable to the left and is roofed at right angles to the gabled frontage, representing a wing added in the later 19th century. A door and window open onto a conservatory, which is a later addition or replacement, and the upper window resembles those in the main body of the house but has 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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