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Coedfa

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanfairfechan, Conwy

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.253 / 53°15'10"N

Longitude: -3.9748 / 3°58'29"W

OS Eastings: 268343

OS Northings: 374706

OS Grid: SH683747

Mapcode National: GBR 0ZPT.7L

Mapcode Global: WH543.XHDJ

Plus Code: 9C5R723G+53

Entry Name: Coedfa

Listing Date: 14 April 1992

Last Amended: 14 April 1992

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 3528

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300003528

Location: Facing The Close, to L of Brooklands; in garden with slate fence.

County: Conwy

Community: Llanfairfechan

Community: Llanfairfechan

Built-Up Area: Llanfairfechan

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

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 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 grey render, small-pane metal casement windows. Roof laid in graded courses of small dark blue slates from Gallt y Llan quarry, Snowdon. Central chimney stack in red-brown brick.

Entrance front with paired gables faces Close; outer 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.

Interior

Polygonal entrance hall (with built-in closets in angles opposite entrance doorway). Ground floor rooms with open beamed ceilings. To L of entrance hall, large living room with pointed-arched fireplace. To R of entrance hall, dining room. Entrance hall leads through to kitchen and pantry at rear, and staircase lit from rear up to first floor with 4 bedrooms and bathroom. Bedrooms have high ceilings and make creative use of steeply pitched roofs. Built-in eaves cupboards to bedrooms. All interior doors boarded and battened in oak, with wooden latches.

Reasons for Listing

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

External Links

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II Brooklands
    Facing The Close, to L of Northfield; in garden with slate fence.
  • II the Haven
    At right angles to The Close to SW of junction with lane.
  • II Letter Box in Pier outside No.14
    Mounted in pier at corner of The Close and lane to Bryn Road.
  • II Whilome
    7 The Close
  • II Woodcot
    To R of Bolnhurst, in garden with slate fence.
  • II Northfield
    Behind Northcot, on R side of Close near junction with Park Road; in garden with slate fence.
  • II Bolnhurst
    To SE of barn at Plas Farm, in garden with slate fencing.
  • II Rose Lea
    8 The Close

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