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

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29494657

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)