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Latitude: 52.9794 / 52°58'45"N
Longitude: -2.9629 / 2°57'46"W
OS Eastings: 335443
OS Northings: 342887
OS Grid: SJ354428
Mapcode National: GBR 77.J6SX
Mapcode Global: WH89C.GC9R
Plus Code: 9C4VX2HP+QR
Entry Name: Rose Lodge (also known as the Old Post Office)
Listing Date: 13 February 1995
Last Amended: 13 February 1995
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 15173
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300015173
Location: Situated on the E side of the A528, 150m N of Overton Bridge.
County: Wrexham
Community: Erbistock (Erbistog)
Community: Erbistock
Locality: Overton Bridge
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: Post office
Estate dwelling of late C18/early C19 with possibly earlier origins. Evident on 1840 Tithe Map. Part of the Rose Hill Estate.
2-storey, whitewashed brick with pedimented gables and slate roof. Main elevation facing road: Dentilled brick cornice ground floor openings altered, 2 doors in their original positions 2 later windows, inset red cast-iron GR letter box dating from the conversion to a post office. First floor contains 2 cast-iron C19 Gothick tracery windows. Right hand return elevation: much altered with later windows with evidence of blocked earlier openings similar to pointed arched windows on front elevation, rear C20 extension. Left hand return elevation: single- storey lean-to additions, 2 brick stacks one with diagonal chimney pots which may relate to an earlier building phase.
Interior not accessible at time of survey (October 1994).
Listed as a good example of late C18/early C19 estate architecture which externally retains much of its original character and for its historical associations with the Rose Hill Estate.
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