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the Haven

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanfairfechan, Conwy

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2529 / 53°15'10"N

Longitude: -3.9746 / 3°58'28"W

OS Eastings: 268361

OS Northings: 374693

OS Grid: SH683746

Mapcode National: GBR 0ZPT.9N

Mapcode Global: WH543.XHJM

Plus Code: 9C5R723G+55

Entry Name: the Haven

Listing Date: 14 April 1992

Last Amended: 14 April 1992

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 3529

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300003529

Location: At right angles to The Close to SW of junction with lane.

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 layout 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 dark blue and russet slates from Gallt y Llan quarry, Snowdon. Central chimneys in red-brown brick.

Entrance front with paired gables at right angles to Close; outer roof 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.

Reasons for Listing

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

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