History

Built c1911. By Herbert Luck North (1871-1941) of Llanfairfechan, outstanding Arts and Crafts architect of his age in Wales.

Exterior

Beamsmoor is on a grander scale than the neighbouring buildings of The Close, but uses the same materials (making reference to local vernacular building methods), and a similar style.

Two-storey house. Rough-cast render (now painted white). Roof laid in graded course of small grey and russet slates from Gallt y Llan quarry, Snowdon, buff earthenware copings to roof. Chimneys.

Garden (W) front has cross-gable to ends, each with tall first floor small-pane casement window. Roof between gables sweeps down over recessed ground floor and has 2 tall dormers with flared hipped slate roofs and small pane glazing. Between gables on ground floor, recessed porch with central French window flanked by small-pane casement windows. Gabled S elevation. Entrance (E) elevation has paired gables with tall small-pane windows on first floor and recessed porch with broad chamfered Gothic arch, small window to R. At right angles is further gable with roof sweeping low to R, small-pane window on first floor and smaller windows on ground floor. North elevation with paired gables between which is dormer with hipped slate roof. Tall small-pane casement windows to first floor, 4 smaller windows on ground floor. At NE corner, small projecting porch with hipped slate roof.

Stone boundary wall to W, and to N, E and S sides of gardens, fencing made from irregular pieces of blue slate quarry waste approximately one metre high tied together with wire (partially obscured by hedging).

Reasons for Listing

Group value with other buildings in The Close and Park Road.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29483409

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)