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
5846
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
14/04/1992  
Date of Amendment
14/04/1992  
Name of Property
Talfor  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Conwy  
Community
Llanfairfechan  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
267705  
Northing
375189  
Street Side
 
Location
At NE end of row of houses backing onto West Shore and facing NW towards Sea.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Built c1905, by H L North, of Llanfairfechan, outstanding Arts and Crafts architect of his age in Wales.  

Exterior
 

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

Group Description
Talfor and Gorsefield, West Shore, Llanfairfechan Pair of 2-storey semi-detached houses. Walls in rough-cast render painted white; roofs in small violet-blue slates varied with groups of three grey-green slates. Tall shared central chimney stack, chimney to each end of ridge. Small-pane casement windows with square lead-lights, bell dripmoulds over windows. Front elevation has two forward-facing gables with double-pitched roof sweeping to ground floor at each end, broad window in each gable on first floor. Between gables, hipped dormer bedroom windows; similar windows in roof slopes at each end of pair. Roof sweeps down for form porch supported on braced wooden posts; beneath porch, door and broad casement window to each house. Broad casement window for each house in ground floor of gables. At rear similar treatment, but no porch. (Talfor has additional single-storey wing at right-angles).  

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