History

Built c1926. 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 grey and russet slates from Gallt y Llan quarry, Snowdon. Chimneys brindled brick; stepped R chimney on ridge, L chimney projects from gable end treated as gabled slated buttress.

Front rises to large central gable with small-pane casement window, to L, dormer window in roof slope. Below gable, ground floor has 4-light small-pane casement window, to L shallow porch (now glazed), to R, 2-light small-pane casement. Left gable end has projecting chimney to L of which small first floor window below which is boarded door. To R of chimney (ground floor) is small window. Right gable end has upper floor window above ground floor semi-hexagonal bay.

Reasons for Listing

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

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29483397

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