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

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29483374

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)