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.
Date of Designation
28/03/2002
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
1 Lloyds Crescent
Address
1 Lloyds Crescent
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Location
Part of the S block at Lloyds Crescent on the W side of a minor road between Rhewl Mostyn and Whitford.
History
Built for the Mostyn Estate in 1933-4 (dates on building).
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding loss of original window detail, as an exceptionally good group of inter-war estate cottages. The group embodies best contemporary practice for rural housing design in its careful planned informality and commitment to traditional arts and crafts principals of composition and style.
Group Description
1-8 Lloyds Crescent
An informal crescent of 8 houses comprising outer blocks of 3 dwellings, flanking a central pair. Arts and Crafts style, of picturesque symmetry, and traditional neo-vernacular materials and detail including roughcast walls, steep slate roofs with overhanging eaves and brick stacks with recessed panels. The original small-paned casement windows have been replaced with small-paned uPVC windows, but the original boarded doors with small-paned glazed upper panels survive.
Outer blocks (nos 1-3 and 6-8) are symmetrically composed, the overall composition over-riding expression of the individual dwellings; asymmetrical outer gables, their inner roof slopes swept down and wrapped round to incorporated hipped canopy porches, supported on curved struts: small window lighting entrance in short return of these advanced gables. Long 3-light window in lower storey of each gable, with shorter window above, and aligned windows in the outer bays of the 5-window range between the gables. The central section of this range comprises a single dwelling in each block (nos 2 and 7), and is tightly symmetrical: doorway beneath hipped canopy porch (with single side-light to left of doorway). Flanking 3-light windows on each floor, and small 2-light casement over entrance, set beneath gablet with monogram 'M' and dates 1933 and 1934 (to nos 7 and 2 respectively).
Nos 4 and 5 comprise the central block of the group. Tightly symmetrical, based again on outer gables, here flanking a 2-window range. Each gable has doorway offset to the inner side, with hipped canopy porch as before, and narrow side-light to one side only. Long 3-light window to ground floor, with shorter 3-light window above, and a narrow window over the entrance. Central 2-window range has similar long ground floor windows, and shorter 3-light windows beneath raking dormers above.
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