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
3527
Building Number
2
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/04/1992
Date of Amendment
14/04/1992
Name of Property
Brooklands
Address
2 The Close
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llanfairfechan
Town
Locality
Easting
268327
Northing
374720
Street Side
SW
Location
Facing The Close, to L of Northfield; in garden with slate fence.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built c1922. 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. Rough-cast render (now painted white). Roof laid in graded courses of small blue slates from Gallt y Llan quarry, Snowdon.
Entrance front with paired gables faces Close; outer slopes of gables sweep down over ground floor at lower pitch. Central chimney group in brick, central stack with ceramic pots flanked by lower stacks with inclined slate covers. Tall first floor windows. On ground floor, central internal porch beneath pointed arch; pointed arched doorway. Porch flanked by broad small pane casement windows. To L, 2 windows light main room. Right elevation has, to L, single almost square window, to R, pointed arched doorway to shallow porch which has square-headed doorways to entrance and storage area. At rear, tall casement window to each gable, and small square windows to bathroom/toilet below which are pair of shallow buttresses flanked by broad small pane casement windows.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with other buildings in The Close and its vicinity.
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