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
87415
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/12/2005
Date of Amendment
30/12/2005
Name of Property
Brackenrigg
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Conwy
Town
Locality
Deganwy
Easting
278013
Northing
379437
Street Side
Location
Reached by a short drive on the E side of Gannock Park. Brackenrigg stands on the lower slopes directly below Deganwy Castle.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Built in the 1930s for Sidney Aston, furniture retailer of N Wales and NW England. The architect is not known.
Exterior
A house in free Domestic-revival style combining Arts and Crafts and Georgian elements, of 1 storey with attic and basement, of whitened pebble-dashed walls, steep tile roof, hipped to the main range and with mansard roofs to outer bays, and tall end brick stacks. The front is 3 main bays, near-symmetrical. In the central bay the entrance is offset to the L and reached up an arc of stone steps. The Lutyens-like entrance has a brick surround to a round-headed doorway with 4 orders of brickwork, and double studded doors incorporating upper mullioned lights with patterned glazing. On its R side is a 2-light small-pane canted bay window. Outer bays have prominent bow windows under domed roofs, small-pane iron-frame glazing under round heads, between wooden Tuscan engaged columns supporting a continuous architrave, with basement windows below. The attic has a central raked roof dormer with 4-light mullioned and transomed small-pane window, and shutters. Outer bays have canted oriels to the attic, with cross windows and small-pane glazing.
Set back in the R side wall is a full-height wall concealing a 1-storey projection and a small enclosed courtyard. The main range has a boarded door to the kitchen and small-pane steel-frame windows. Above it is a raked dormer.
The rear has small-pane mullioned and transomed windows.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a fine and well-preserved 1930s suburban house.
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