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Glascoed Lodge is a former Gate House to Bodelwyddan Castle is set into the South wall of Bodelwyddan Park on the outskirts of the village of Glascoed, Denbighshire, North Wales. It is a Grade II listed building.

History
Built circa 1825 for Sir John Hay Williams, 2nd Bt of Bodelwyddan, by architect J A Hansom (also known as the inventor of the Hansom Cab). The Lodge is contemporary with the refashioning of Bodelwyddan Castle.

It is documented Charles Darwin passed through Glascoed on his way to Snowdon with Professor Sedgwick of Cambridge University during there geological tour of North Wales in 1831.

Exterior
Glascoed Lodge is the best of the remaining lodge's surrounding Bodelwyddan Park with the most imposing entrance to the park. Built of local grey limestone with its corbelled parapets, crenellations with strongly battered tower bases. Each tower has a single cross-loopholes with oeillets to each tower. A striking Castellated early C19 lodge associated with the important Bodelwyddan Castle.