3529

4  

II  

Designated  

14/04/1992  

14/04/1992  

the Haven  

4 The Close  

Conwy  

Llanfairfechan  

 

Llanfairfechan  

268361  

374693  

 

At right angles to The Close to SW of junction with lane.  

Domestic  

 

Built c1922. 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 layout of The Close, form a textbook example of a group of high quality Arts and Crafts style domestic architecture unique in Wales.  

Two-storey house . Rough-cast render (now painted white). Roof laid in graded courses of small dark blue and russet slates from Gallt y Llan quarry, Snowdon. Central chimneys in red-brown brick. Entrance front with paired gables at right angles to Close; outer roof slopes of gables sweep down over ground floor at lower pitch. Tall first floor windows. On ground floor, central internal porch beneath pointed arch; pointed arched doorway. Porch flanked by broad small pane casement windows. To L, 2 windows light main room. Right elevation has, to L, single almost square window, to R, pointed arched doorway to shallow porch which has square-headed doorways to entrance and storage area. At rear, tall casement window to each gable, and small square windows to bathroom/toilet below which, are pair of shallow buttresses flanked by broad small pane casement windows.  

 

Group value with other buildings in The Close and its vicinity.