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
247
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/10/1973
Date of Amendment
06/12/2002
Name of Property
5 Terfyn Cottages
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Bodelwyddan
Town
Locality
Terfyn
Easting
298327
Northing
376133
Street Side
N
Location
Group of 8 semi-detached cottages at Terfyn, on St Asaph Road 1km W of Bodelwyddan Village.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
247
245-249
C.1868. Attributed to W.E.Nesfield, architect. A group of estate cottages, arranged in pairs on a corner site. At the corner is a well, covered by a conical slate roof resting on three wooden posts and surmounted by a finial of wood and metal. The cottages are of 1+ storeys and are built of stone with slate roofs surmounted by wood and metal finials. Each pair has a central projection with a half-hipped dormer. Flanking these are one-storeyed porches. Mullion windows with casements.
Interior
Reason for designation
One of a set of 8 substantial estate cottages attributed to W E Nesfield, a major Victorian architect whose works include Kinmel Park.
Group Description
One of a group of 8 similar cottages belonging to the Kinmel Manor Estate and attributed to the architect W E Nesfield in c1868 (at this period Nesfield was working at Kinmel Park.). Axe-dressed uncoursed local limestone with stone lintels and other dressed stone to openings. Slate roofs in equal courses with tile ridges, ridge finials, and metal-covered hips; half-hipped gables. Brick chimneys.
The cottages are planned as semi-detached pairs, of 1½ storeys, with the main range of each pair parallel to the road and paired forward wings centrally. In the angle of the main range and the forward wing is the entrance lobby, of one storey under a single-hipped roof. The central chimney penetrates the ridge and is shared by the 2 cottages. Each cottage has in addition a kitchen chimney at the end of the range to the rear, brick on a stone plinth. In the forward wing each cottage has a 3-light single window above and 2 2-light windows below. The porch has a plain door to front and a 3-light window to the side. Paired 2-light windows to lower storey beyond porch. In side elevation a 3-light window above and a single light window below.
At rear the cottage pairs each have a shared central gabled extension, probably original, and other extensions of later date including catslide roofs.
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