Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
17040
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/01/1996
Date of Amendment
05/01/1996
Name of Property
Bottom Lodge at Bryn Eisteddfod
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llansanffraid Glan Conwy
Town
Locality
Bryn Eisteddfod
Easting
280976
Northing
377343
Street Side
Location
Located at the bottom of the N drive to Bryn Eisteddfod, approximately 1.5km N of the house and set back slightly from the A 547 on the S side.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
Small lodge built .1833 for the Venerable Hugh Chambres Jones, Archdeacon of Essex, to serve his house Bryn Eisteddfod; in simple Tudor style. Of limestone ashlar with coped gable parapets to steeply-pitched slate roofs; central stack with paired, off-set chimneys. The lodge is roughly L-shaped with a gabled cross-wing projecting slightly at R and with a narrower gabled porch stepped down from this. Chamfered Tudor-arched opening with contemporary studded door; inset chamfered plaque above inscribed HCJ (for Hugh Chambres Jones) and with date 1833. Plain 2-light mullioned windows to NE gable and NW side, with splayed reveals; plain slit window to the gable apex. Canted single-storey bay to SW gable end with plain glazing and stone roof. Small modern extension at S corner.
Interior
The interior was not inspected during he survey (October 1995).
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as an 1830s Tudor-style lodge retaining much external character.
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