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
3548
Building Number
21
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/04/1992
Date of Amendment
14/04/1992
Name of Property
Hillcrest
Address
21 The Close
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llanfairfechan
Town
Locality
Llanfairfechan
Easting
268486
Northing
374826
Street Side
Location
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built c1935. 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 (now 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 flues covered by peaked slates.
Entrance front with paired gables faces The 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 doors Porch flanked by broad small pane casement windows, one to each side. 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 flanked by small projecting storage rooms (all under lean-to roof); 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; metal doors.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with other buildings in The Close and its vicinity.
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