Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
3536
Building Number
11
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/04/1992
Date of Amendment
14/04/1992
Name of Property
Maes Aled
Address
11 The Close
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llanfairfechan
Town
Locality
Llanfairfechan
Easting
268452
Northing
374712
Street Side
Location
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built c1924. 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 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. Two tall chimney stacks in brown brick on ridge.
Front elevation wall runs up into single gabled dormer with small pane metal casement window under drip mould. Roof overhangs front wall on corbels but is flush at gable ends of house. Roof sweeps down on R over porch, porch roof hipped and supported to L on wooden post. Square headed entrance doorway with original boarded door. To R of porch, polygonal bay (5 sides of octagon) clasps angle of building and is covered by roof of small slates. Windows in bay small pane metal casements. To L of porch, three small pane metal casement windows to L of porch.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with other buildings in The Close and its vicinity.
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