Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
19615
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/04/1998
Date of Amendment
01/04/1998
Name of Property
Garth
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanengan
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Abersoch
Easting
231411
Northing
328043
Street Side
Location
Situated set back down drive running E some 120m down Stryd Fawr, immediately beyond shops.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C20 house built for Dr O J Evans c1910-13 in unusual neo-Georgian style showing an Arts and Crafts movement freedom with period detail. Marked on the 1918 O.S. map but not on the 1900 edition. Said to have been designed by a pupil of Lutyens and to have won a prize in a Daily Maily competition for houses costing £1,000.
Exterior
House, unpainted roughcast with extensive dressings in red brick, hipped roofs with centre valley in red plain tiles and moulded painted timber eaves cornices. Three large red brick stacks with raised side panels and moulded cast-stone caps. Chimneys are behind ridges, one parallel to front W entry, two symmetrically at right angles to E garden front. One storey and attic, 5-window fronts, 3-window sides. Windows are long 18-pane sashes in red brick rusticated surrounds carried up to eaves with brick blank panels over. Stone keystones. E front has broad centre projection, hipped with flat ridge and tiny flat dormer over 3-bay open-pedimented front, the bays marked by plain red brick piers with roughcast between and tall-flat-headed brick doorway between centre piers, with stone triple key and double doors. Similar tiny dormer each side of projecting roof. Main range each side has one large hipped dormer with leaded casement windows and tiled cheeks. Dormers are placed on eaves between ground floor windows. Sides have similar 3 ground floor openings with panels over and three similar dormers above, but without original leaded glazing. On N side there are doors instead of windows in outer bays.
Garden front has straight front but slightly projecting hipped roofs over two outer windows, each with one similar dormer, while centre has 3-bay loggia with two stone columns and flat lintels and 2 small flat dormers above. Loggia may have been originally open, now infilled with glazing. Two similar windows and centre door within.
Interior
Reason for designation
An architecturally sophisticated neo-Georgian design of the early C20.
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