Latitude: 53.2806 / 53°16'50"N
Longitude: -4.6301 / 4°37'48"W
OS Eastings: 224745
OS Northings: 379186
OS Grid: SH247791
Mapcode National: GBR GNY1.1VC
Mapcode Global: WH31B.VSBW
Plus Code: 9C5Q79J9+6W
Entry Name: Craig y Mor
Listing Date: 19 January 1998
Last Amended: 30 June 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 20078
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300020078
Location: In an elevated position on a rocky promontory, set back from the SW side of Lon Isallt and on the coastline overlooking Porth yr Afon, W of Trearddur Bay.
County: Isle of Anglesey
Town: Trearddur Bay
Community: Trearddur
Community: Trearddur
Built-Up Area: Trearddur
Traditional County: Anglesey
Tagged with: House
Designed by F G Hicks, architect of Liverpool. Construction of the house began c 1911, work ceased during the First World War and recommenced shortly afterwards, finally completed in 1922. Built for William Smellie, a wealthy Englishman and one of a number who built holiday homes around Porth Diana and one of the founder members of the Trearddur Bay Sailing Club. Inherited by his son-in-law Sir Edward Jones, Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland.
Large house in austere, neo-Georgian style. Main part a 2-storey, 5-window range with a 2-storey, 4-window lower wing set at right angles to the front to form an L-shaped plan with the entrance porch in the angle; the advanced wing continues at a lower level with a storeyed servants wing, garage and boathouse. Walls are of snecked rubble masonry of local stone with freestone dressings; the main range is articulated by a continuous ground floor plat band with stressed course above. Roof of small green slates with hipped gable dormers and tall rectangular axial stacks of snecked masonry with corbel courses. Windows are slightly recessed 12-pane hornless sashes. The house is reached by a zig-zag flight of steps bounded by stepped, snecked rubble masonry walls; these lead to the main entrance in the single storey porch in the angle. Porch is seperately roofed with an open loggia to the right housing the entrance; a square-headed panelled door set within a stressed surround with stepped voussoir keystone; to left is a stressed window feature, coupled sashes divided by an ashlar panel; hipped gable dormer in roof. The principal elevation is to the rear, overlooking the sea; strongly symmetrical, the central part a 2-window range with advanced flanking rectangular bays with ground floor loggia's, each with tall French windows with margin panes. Central part with a ground floor tripartite sash window flanked by narrower sashes; the first floor has 2x12-pane sash windows with a central hipped gabled dormer with tripartite sash, between the chimneys above. Flanking bays with first floor tripartite sash windows. The left gable return has similarly detailed windows with a hipped gabled dormer above and a single sash light above the loggia. The right gable return has a full-height canted bay with 12-pane sashes and a hipped gable dormer in its roof; this elevation continues as the rear of the advanced wing, with scattered fenestration of sash windows of differing sizes. The service block at the end of this advanced wing is set at a lower level with a linking block of 3 metal grilled lights; a hipped block with garage and boat house at opposing ends and first floor sash windows set under hipped gable dormers; 2-storey caretaker's house at far end.
Listed as a boldly designed early C20 house, ambitious in scale, dramatic in massing, and refined in detail; prominent local coastal landmark.
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