Brooklands

Cadw's description

Location

Facing The Close, to L of Northfield; in garden with slate fence.

History

Built c1922. By Herbert Luck North (1871 1941), outstanding Arts and Crafts architect of his age in Wales.

The Close was laid out and developed between 1899 and 1945. The almost unaltered buildings (in materials making reference to local vernacular building styles), and the lay-out of The Close, form a textbook example of a group of high quality Arts and Crafts style domestic architecture unique in Wales.

Exterior

Two-storey house. Rough-cast render (now painted white). Roof laid in graded courses of small blue slates from Gallt y Llan quarry, Snowdon.

Entrance front with paired gables faces Close; outer slopes of gables sweep down over ground floor at lower pitch. Central chimney group in brick, central stack with ceramic pots flanked by lower stacks with inclined slate covers. Tall first floor windows. On ground floor, central internal porch beneath pointed arch; pointed arched doorway. Porch flanked by broad small pane casement windows. To L, 2 windows light main room. Right elevation has, to L, single almost square window, to R, pointed arched doorway to shallow porch which has square-headed doorways to entrance and storage area. At rear, tall casement window to each gable, and small square windows to bathroom/toilet below which are pair of shallow buttresses flanked by broad small pane casement windows.

Reason for designation

Group value with other buildings in The Close and its vicinity.