Bottom Lodge at Bryn Eisteddfod

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.

The interior was not inspected during he survey (October 1995).