:Newbridge Lodge

The Williams-Wynn baronets of Wynnstay Hall were, in the 18th and 19th centuries, "the richest, most powerful and most profusely hospitable" family in North Wales.{{sfn|Hubbard|2003|p=313}} Their Wynnstay estate saw extensive development; firstly by the 3rd baronet, who engaged Francis Smith of Warwick in the mid-18th century, and subsequently by the 4th and 5th baronets.{{NHAW|num=1627|desc=Wynnstay Hall|grade=II*|access-date=2 October 2022}} The 5th baronet commissioned Charles Robert Cockerell to undertake work at the hall, and also to construct the Newbridge Lodge, purportedly in anticipation of a Royal visit which did not, in fact, occur.{{NHAW|num=16872|desc=Newbridge Lodge|grade=I|access-date=2 October 2022}}{{efn|Wynnstay Hall was very badly damaged by a fire in the 1850s and almost completely rebuilt in a French Renaissance revival style by Benjamin Ferrey. Edward Hubbard was not overly impressed, describing Ferrey's rebuilding as having, "much of the coarseness and little of the gusto associated with the genre."{{sfn|Hubbard|2003|p=313}}}}

Edward Hubbard, in his Clwyd volume in the Pevsner Buildings of Wales series, applauds the "brilliant originality" of Cockerell's design.{{sfn|Hubbard|2003|p=316}}{{efn|The Royal Institute of British Architects library holds a design, dated 1827, that has similarities to the Newbridge Lodge.{{cite web|url= https://www.ribapix.com/designs-for-park-entrance-gates-wynnstay-near-newbridge-clwyd-for-sir-w-w-wynn-sketch-elevations_riba67157 |title=Designs for park entrance gates, Wynnstay|publisher=RIBA|access-date=2 October 2022}}}} The lodge is of two storeys, the lower floor with an arcaded and rusticated loggia.{{Coflein|num=27658|desc=Newbridge Lodge (Wynnstay Lodge) and Gates|access-date=2 October 2022}} The construction material is local ashlar. The lodge is set back from the road and enclosed by a set of elaborate gates with railings. Both the lodge and the gates are Grade I listed buildings, the Cadw listing record describing them as "one of the finest lodge designs of its period in Britain."{{NHAW|num=16873|desc=Entrance gates and railings at Newbridge Lodge|grade=I|access-date=2 October 2022}}

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• {{Cite book

| last =Hubbard | first =Edward | author-link = Edward Hubbard (architectural historian)

| series= The Buildings of Wales

| title = Clwyd (Denbighshire and Flintshire)

| url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/315792534

| publisher =Yale University Press

| year = 2003

| location =New Haven and London

| isbn =978-0-300-09627-9

| oclc =315792534

}}

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Category:Houses completed in the 19th century

Category:Grade I listed houses in Wales

Category:Grade I listed buildings in Wrexham County Borough