Top Lodge at Bryn Eisteddfod, Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, Conwy

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2743 / 53°16'27"N

Longitude: -3.7949 / 3°47'41"W

OS Eastings: 280410

OS Northings: 376755

OS Grid: SH804767

Mapcode National: GBR 1ZYK.7Z

Mapcode Global: WH654.PY4R

Plus Code: 9C5R76F4+P3

Entry Name: Top Lodge at Bryn Eisteddfod

Listing Date: 5 January 1996

Last Amended: 5 January 1996

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 17039

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300017039

Location: Located at the top of the W drive to Bryn Eisteddfod, approximately 1km W of the house.

County: Conwy

Community: Llansanffraid Glan Conwy

Locality: Bryn Eisteddfod

Built-Up Area: Llansanffraid Glan Conwy

Traditional County: Denbighshire

Tagged with: Gatehouse

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Exterior

Small lodge built c.1833 for the Venerable Hugh Chambres Jones, Archdeacon of Essex, to serve his house Bryn Eisteddfod; in simple Tudor style. Of rough-dressed rubble with ashlar dressings; coped and sham-machicolated gable parapets to steeply-pitched slate roofs, solid machicolated central stack. The lodge is roughly L-shaped with a gabled cross-wing projecting slightly at L and with a narrower gabled porch stepped down from this. Tudor-arched opening and returned label, the stops carved as heads; inset chamfered plaque above inscribed HCJ (for Hugh Chambres Jones). Buckley tiled floor within, with flanking benches and ribbed door to pointed-arched entrance. 3-light leaded mullioned window to SW return, with arched heads and chamfered reveals. Similar window to recessed main section to R of porch. The NE gable has a plain arched window above a blind, chamfered slit. A machicolated parapet wall extends NW from this gable, concealing a contemporary catslide lean-to at the rear; modern openings and rendered face. Adjoining to the SW, a slated lean-to with enclosed passage beyond, leading to the rear.

Interior

Plain interior.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its special interest as an 1830s Tudor-style lodge retaining much external character.

External Links

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Other nearby listed buildings

II The Old Rectory
Raised up above the road overlooking the Conwy estuary, approximately 0.5km N of the village; accessed from the road via a metalled drive.
II Bwthyn-y-Bryn at Bryn Eisteddfod
Located immediately N of Bryn Eisteddfod, the garage block facing the service court.
II Brick Carthouse at Bryn Eisteddfod
Located immediately opposite Bwthyn-y-Bryn.
II Bryn Eisteddfod
Located on a bend off the B 5381 2km NE of Llansanffraid Glan Conwy village.
II Garages at Bryn Eisteddfod
Located immediately N of Bryn Eisteddfod, the garage block facing the service court.
II Kitchen Garden Walls (including glasshouses) at Bryn Eisteddfod
Bounding the lower drive of Bryn Eisteddfod to the N, the service court to the S and the B5381 to the E.
II Mews Cottage
Immediately to the N and E of Bryn Eisteddfod, and closing the service court to the SE.
II Pleasure Garden Walls
Immediately to the N and E of Bryn Eisteddfod, and closing the service court to the SE.

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Top Lodge at Bryn Eisteddfod

A Grade II Listed Building in Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, Conwy