Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
3551
Building Number
24
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/04/1992
Date of Amendment
14/04/1992
Name of Property
Greenhills
Address
24 The Close
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llanfairfechan
Town
Locality
Llanfairfechan
Easting
268495
Northing
374889
Street Side
Location
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built c1926. 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. Chimneys brindled brick; stepped R chimney on ridge, L chimney projects from gable end treated as gabled slated buttress.
Front rises to large central gable with small-pane casement window, to L, dormer window in roof slope. Below gable, ground floor has 4-light small-pane casement window, to L shallow porch (now glazed), to R, 2-light small-pane casement. Left gable end has projecting chimney to L of which small first floor window below which is boarded door. To R of chimney (ground floor) is small window. Right gable end has upper floor window above ground floor semi-hexagonal bay.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with other buildings in The Close and its vicinity.
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