Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Whilome
Llanfairfechan, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 April 1992
- Locality
- Llanfairfechan
- Community
- Llanfairfechan
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.25321, -3.97445
- Cadw reference
- 3532
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 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
History
Built c1907, at cost of £475. 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. Grey rough-cast render. Roof laid in graded courses of small grey slates from Gallt y Llan quarry, Snowdon. Chimneys brown brick. Windows diaper- camed wooden casements.
Paired gables face The Close, outer slopes sweep down to Ground floor at less steep pitch. Tall windows in gables, between these smaller almost square window. Central gabled porch with Gothic arch; narrower Gothic arch to doorway. Rooms to L and R of porch have pairs of 2-light casement windows.
Interior
Interior has lobby leading to hall flanked by dining and drawing rooms which can be made to inter-connect through system of moveable screen doors. Kitchen and scullery to rear.
Reason for designation
Group value with other buildings in The Close and its vicinity.
Nearby in the register
- WoodcotDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rose LeaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Letter Box in Pier outside No.14Communicationsunder 1 mi
- CoedfaDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.