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
3531
Building Number
6
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/04/1992
Date of Amendment
14/04/1992
Name of Property
Woodcot
Address
6 The Close
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llanfairfechan
Town
Locality
Llanfairfechan
Easting
268359
Northing
374742
Street Side
NE
Location
To R of Bolnhurst, in garden with slate fence.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built c1903. 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 dark blue and light blue slates from Gallt y Llan quarry, Snowdon. Chimneys in red brick with some random blue bricks.
Asymmetrical gables to front elevation with large gable to L and smaller gable adjacent. Tall camber-headed window to each gable (small pane wooden casements). On ground floor, gabled porch with slated roof has pointed arch. Pointed arched entrance doorway with glazed door. To each side of porch, pair of camber headed windows (small pane wooden casements) lighting sitting room and dining room.
Interior
Inventive ground floor design. Square entrance hall with polished wooden floor. Rooms to L and R. Hall and rooms separated from each other by hinged wooden partitioning which allows combining of rooms to suit differing needs. At rear of entrance hall (L), entrance to kitchen and scullery, and to basement pantry. Stairs lit from window on half-landing off which is bathroom. Four bedrooms making inventive use of steeply pitched roofs and asymmetrical gables.
Reason for designation
Group value with other buildings in The Close and its vicinity.
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