Dwyfor

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.