Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dwyfor
Llanfairfechan, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanfairfechan, Conwy, designated on 14 April 1992.
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
- 53.25445, -3.97258
- Cadw reference
- 3550
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
History
Built c1937. By North & Padmore, Architects, of Llanfairfechan. (Herbert Luck North (1871-1941) and P M Padmore (b 1896)).
The Close was laid out and developed between 1899 and 1945, instigated by H L North, outstanding Arts and Crafts architect of his age in Wales. 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 (row painted white). Roof laid in graded courses of small grey and russet slates from Gallt y Llan quarry, Snowdon. Chimneys in red-brown brick, set centrally on ridge, taller central group flanked by lower stacks mainly covered by slates peaked over flues.
Entrance front with paired gables faces Close; outer slopes of gables sweep down over ground floor. Tall first floor windows (small-pane metal casements. On ground floor, central internal porch with Gothic arch above which is wooden gabled slated canopy; pointed arched entrance doorway with original door. Porch flanked by broad small pane casement windows. Right elevation has single small-pane casement window. At rear, pairs of tall casement windows to each gable, and at lower level, central group of 2 narrow small-pane windows flanking circular window. Below these central Gothic arched doorway to recessed porch flanked by shallow low buttresses; 3-light casements to each side on ground floor.
At rear, garage in matching materials with hipped small-slate roof and walls in roughcast render.
Reason for designation
Group value with other buildings in The Close and its vicinity.
Nearby in the register
- GreenhillsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Grey GablesDomesticunder 1 mi
- HillcrestDomesticunder 1 mi
- Carreg LlwydDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.