Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bennar
Tremeirchion, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 9 April 2002
- Locality
- Tremeirchion Village
- Community
- Tremeirchion
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.24647, -3.37924
- Cadw reference
- 26458
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On east side of Heol-y-brenin, set back from street with terraced lawns to front.
History
Designed by R A Briggs in c.1908.
Exterior
A rough-cast and white-painted two-storey house of irregular form, with Arts and Crafts and Beaux Arts features. Light red roof tiles and ridge tiles, chimney stacks rough-cast and coloured as the general masonry. The fenestration is in small-pane mullioned windows throughout, those to the ground storey and within gables at first storey having transoms in addition. The main doorway (north) has an ashlar stone surround, with a segmentally arched cornice on consoles. Semi-glazed double doors.
The layout is a main range aligned north/south with a cross-wing at each end, the house facing west to its front gardens and the road. The main range is slightly higher than the cross wings, its roof hip-ended. The front (west) elevation shows the gables of the two cross wings, that to the right slightly advancing. Between them, abutting the left gable, is a semi-octagonal two-storey bay with generous eaves and its own semi-octagonal roof. The right cross-wing gable has a projecting single-storey square bay window with a small hipped lean-to roof. The left side of the building has the main entrance to the rear, with a deeply projecting flat-roofed semi-octagonal bay window towards the front which contributes to the balance of the architectural composition of the front. The rear is irregular in similar materials. The right side (south) is three windows wide, with a central gable and its centre and right bays advanced.
Interior
Large main room extending for the full width of the front, said formerly to have been divided by a moveable screen. Bay windows with window seats. Entrance, corridor and stairs to rear.
Reason for designation
A good example of a large Arts and Crafts house, the work of a noted local architect; a carefully balanced asymmetrical composition in roughcast and red tiles, retaining its good original fenestration and other detail, and taking full advantage of its terraced situation.
Nearby in the register
- Tremeirchion Voluntary Primary School and SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- Tremeirchion War MemorialReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Sundial pillar in Tremeirchion ChurchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of Corpus Christi (Holy Trinity)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.