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Northfield

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanfairfechan, Conwy

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2533 / 53°15'11"N

Longitude: -3.9753 / 3°58'30"W

OS Eastings: 268316

OS Northings: 374738

OS Grid: SH683747

Mapcode National: GBR 0ZPT.5H

Mapcode Global: WH543.XH6B

Plus Code: 9C5R723F+8V

Entry Name: Northfield

Listing Date: 14 April 1992

Last Amended: 14 April 1992

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 3526

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300003526

Location: Behind Northcot, on R side of Close near junction with Park Road; in garden with slate fence.

County: Conwy

Community: Llanfairfechan

Community: Llanfairfechan

Built-Up Area: Llanfairfechan

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Built c1912. 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 pale grey slates from Gallt y Llan quarry, Snowdon. Chimneys rendered. Small pane wooden casement windows, with dripmoulds slated.

Entrance front with double gables faces The Close; outer slopes of gables sweep down over ground floor at lower pitch. Tall square-sectioned rendered chimneys in outer roof slopes. First floor has tall small-pane casement windows with slated drip moulds. Central shallow porch, gabled and slated, has slated buttress above broad pointed arch. Gothic arched entrance doorway. Porch flanked by broad small-paned casement windows.

At rear, R gable is set forward and roof slopes down to first floor level on L; small dormer in L roof slope. Tall first floor casement windows. On ground floor, doorway and almost square small pane casement windows.

Reasons for Listing

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

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