Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bottom Lodge at Bryn Eisteddfod
Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bryn Eisteddfod, Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, Conwy, designated on 5 January 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 5 January 1996
- Locality
- Bryn Eisteddfod
- Community
- Llansanffraid Glan Conwy
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.27966, -3.78660
- Cadw reference
- 17040
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesNational Library of Scotland
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
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.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Access Bridge to Bryn EisteddfodTransportunder 1 mi
- Brodnant FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rubble cart shed at Bryn EisteddfodAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Kitchen Garden Walls (including glasshouses) at Bryn EisteddfodDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.