History

Dated 1900. Built for own use by H L North, eminent North Wales architect. Constructed in Buckley brick with local granite dressings, Welsh slate roofs and sills.

Exterior

Two storey, 3 sided gabled and dry-dash rendered front towards terraced garden. Slate roofs without bargeboards, flush eaves; brick stacks towards centre of roof and to cat-slide outer slopes. Sloping dormer head left and (added) small dormer with lattice glazing to right. Paired, narrow upper lights with tall 8-pane timber sashes; triple ground floor windows with paired small pane casements and pointed glazed door to centre with slated steps leading down.

Single-storey hipped domestic range towards hillside on S side with oversailing eaves and end stack. "Butterfly Plan" to entrance front with hipped roof over long small-pane landing window; tiled facings. Recessed doorway under timber bressumer with incised date "1900" and monogram "HLN”; studded door with original metal fittings and diagonal bracing (inside).

Interior

Remarkably complete interior. Inventive spacious plan unaltered from North's original designs. Polygonal entrance hall with rooms radiating on ground floor; cantilevered landing and staircase with Arts and Crafts timber handrails and newels. Tiled floor and angled chimney surround to hall; cloakroom (family bookroom) to left. Exceptional canted suite of three intercommunicating public rooms within garden front; glazing bars to dividers. Beamed ceilings, wooden shutters with punched decoration and strapwork hinges, low seats to splays, timber sills and valences, dramatic 6-panelled doors. Islamic style design to outward curving overmantel with tiled chimney surround. Similar treatment to bedroom floor with polygonal plan form, small arts and crafts chimney pieces, battened doors. Beams to ceiling groins.

Reasons for Listing

One of the most exceptional houses of its date and style in Wales.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q13132256

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)