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Latitude: 53.2531 / 53°15'11"N
Longitude: -3.9735 / 3°58'24"W
OS Eastings: 268433
OS Northings: 374719
OS Grid: SH684747
Mapcode National: GBR 0ZPT.JK
Mapcode Global: WH543.YH0F
Plus Code: 9C5R723G+7H
Entry Name: Hilcroft
Listing Date: 14 April 1992
Last Amended: 14 April 1992
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 3535
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300003535
Location: 10 The Close
County: Conwy
Community: Llanfairfechan
Community: Llanfairfechan
Built-Up Area: Llanfairfechan
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
Tagged with: House
Built c1924. 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.
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. Two tall chimney stacks in brown brick on ridge.
Front elevation wall runs up into 2 gabled dormers each with small pane metal casement window under drip mould. Roof overhangs front wall on corbels but is flush at gable ends of house. Roof sweeps down on L over porch, porch roof hipped and supported on masonry piers; square headed entrance doorway with boarded door, small-pane window to L of porch. To R of porch two 2-light and one 3-light small pane metal casement windows, all with drip moulds. Right (SE) elevation has on first floor, small pane metal casement window (drip mould over). On ground floor, semi-hexagonal bay with small-slate roof and small pane metal casement windows.
Garage to rear, small-slate roof, roughcast render.
Group value with other buildings in The Close and its vicinity.
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