Hafod Lodge to Hensol Castle (Also known as Bottom Lodge)

Hafod Lodge, also known as Bottom Lodge, is a Tudor Gothic lodge that is less picturesque than Hensol Castle but is likely designed by the same architects. It may show the influence of John Nash, whose 'Cottage style' buildings inspired small dwellings and lodges in landscaped parks. The lodge is a single-storey and attic cross-plan building made of scribed stucco, featuring very wide boarded eaves beneath a later tiled roof. The bargeboards have also been renewed, and there is a large stone finial at the front along with rendered chimneys.

The building has four-centred and square-headed openings, with various dripmoulds, and a bracketed cornice above the front attic window. The symmetrical main front faces south and includes a projecting two-storey porch at the center, which has a three-light window above a blind shield and a four-centred doorway with a modern door. There are blocked slit windows high up on the return walls. The outer windows are cross frame, and there are broad projecting gables on the west and east sides with splayed bay windows. At the rear, ground windows on both sides have bracketed cornices, and there is a low hipped extension.

Surrounding the lodge is a low stone boundary wall with contemporary iron railings that feature Gothic finials and barley twist spearheads at the base. The wall sweeps in towards the drive and includes a stone end pier and a Gothic cusped buttress at the right end.