Craig-y-parc House | |
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Type | House |
Location | Cardiff, Glamorgan |
Coordinates | 51°31′09″N 3°18′15″W / 51.5192°N 3.3042°W |
Built | 1914-1918 |
Architect | Charles Edward Mallows |
Architectural style(s) | Arts and Crafts |
Governing body | Salutem Healthcare |
Owner | Thomas Evans |
Official name | Craig y Parc |
Designated | 1 February 2022 |
Reference no. | PGW(Gm)6(CDF) |
Listing | Grade II* |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Craig-y-parc House |
Designated | 31 January 2000 |
Reference no. | 22816 |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Loggia at Craig-y-parc and attached terrace walls and steps |
Designated | 31 January 2000 |
Reference no. | 22817 |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Garden terrace and steps at Craig-y-parc |
Designated | 31 January 2000 |
Reference no. | 22818 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Walls and gatepiers to courtyard entrance at Craig-y-parc |
Designated | 31 January 2000 |
Reference no. | 22819 |
Craig-y-parc House is a country house in Pentyrch, Cardiff, Wales. Dating from 1914 to 1918, it was built for Thomas Evans, a colliery owner, by Charles Edward Mallows. The house reputedly cost £100,000. Craig-y-parc is a Grade II* listed building. The garden and park surrounding the house has its own Grade II* listing on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales, is a designated conservation area and contains a number of listed structures. The house now operates as a residential school for children and young adults with disabilities.
Thomas Evans began his career as a railwayman. Known as "Small Coal Evans", he reputedly made his fortune by collecting coal that had fallen from coal trucks operating on the railways in the South Wales Coalfield. [1] By 1940, he held a CBE, was the Chairman of the Cardiff Coal and Shipping Exchange, Vice-chairman of the Ocean Coal Company and a Justice of the peace for Glamorganshire. [2] In 1914, Evans commissioned Charles Edward Mallows to build a house some seven miles north of Cardiff in woods close to the village of Pentyrch. Mallows, who died the year after work had begun, [3] was an architect in the Arts and Crafts style, much influenced by Edwin Lutyens. [4] His major work was Tirley Garth in Cheshire, another Lutyenseque house for another rich industrialist. [5] Mallows also had full responsibility for the design of the gardens surrounding the house, which he laid out to an Arts and Crafts-influenced design. [6] The whole reputedly cost Evans a sum in excess of £100,000. [1]
Following Evans' death in 1943, Craig-y-parc came into the possession of the National Coal Board before being sold in 1954 to the Spastics Society which opened a residential school at the site in 1955. [7] [8] The school continues to provide residential care for children and young adults with disabilities, operated by Salutem Healthcare. [9]
Craig-y-parc is a large mansion with the entrance front to the north, and the garden front, onto which all the main receptions rooms face, to the south. [1] The architectural historian John Newman, in his Glamorgan volume of the Buildings of Wales, notes the strong influence of Lutyens. [4] This is seen particularly in the lodge, and in the north frontage, which Newman compares to Little Thakeham. He admires Mallow's originality on the garden front, where a row of columns forms an arcade. [4] The house is constructed of locally quarried stone, with granite dressings. The house is listed at Grade II*. [1] The gardens are also listed at II*, on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. The listing record notes their "strongly axial design" and considers them "a very good example of [an] architectural Edwardian garden". [6] The loggia, [10] and the garden terrace have their own Grade II* listings, [11] while the lodge, [12] and the walls and gate piers at the courtyard entrance are listed Grade II. [13]
Thomas Evans died on 24 December 1943
Craig-y-parc House | |
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Type | House |
Location | Cardiff, Glamorgan |
Coordinates | 51°31′09″N 3°18′15″W / 51.5192°N 3.3042°W |
Built | 1914-1918 |
Architect | Charles Edward Mallows |
Architectural style(s) | Arts and Crafts |
Governing body | Salutem Healthcare |
Owner | Thomas Evans |
Official name | Craig y Parc |
Designated | 1 February 2022 |
Reference no. | PGW(Gm)6(CDF) |
Listing | Grade II* |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Craig-y-parc House |
Designated | 31 January 2000 |
Reference no. | 22816 |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Loggia at Craig-y-parc and attached terrace walls and steps |
Designated | 31 January 2000 |
Reference no. | 22817 |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Garden terrace and steps at Craig-y-parc |
Designated | 31 January 2000 |
Reference no. | 22818 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Walls and gatepiers to courtyard entrance at Craig-y-parc |
Designated | 31 January 2000 |
Reference no. | 22819 |
Craig-y-parc House is a country house in Pentyrch, Cardiff, Wales. Dating from 1914 to 1918, it was built for Thomas Evans, a colliery owner, by Charles Edward Mallows. The house reputedly cost £100,000. Craig-y-parc is a Grade II* listed building. The garden and park surrounding the house has its own Grade II* listing on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales, is a designated conservation area and contains a number of listed structures. The house now operates as a residential school for children and young adults with disabilities.
Thomas Evans began his career as a railwayman. Known as "Small Coal Evans", he reputedly made his fortune by collecting coal that had fallen from coal trucks operating on the railways in the South Wales Coalfield. [1] By 1940, he held a CBE, was the Chairman of the Cardiff Coal and Shipping Exchange, Vice-chairman of the Ocean Coal Company and a Justice of the peace for Glamorganshire. [2] In 1914, Evans commissioned Charles Edward Mallows to build a house some seven miles north of Cardiff in woods close to the village of Pentyrch. Mallows, who died the year after work had begun, [3] was an architect in the Arts and Crafts style, much influenced by Edwin Lutyens. [4] His major work was Tirley Garth in Cheshire, another Lutyenseque house for another rich industrialist. [5] Mallows also had full responsibility for the design of the gardens surrounding the house, which he laid out to an Arts and Crafts-influenced design. [6] The whole reputedly cost Evans a sum in excess of £100,000. [1]
Following Evans' death in 1943, Craig-y-parc came into the possession of the National Coal Board before being sold in 1954 to the Spastics Society which opened a residential school at the site in 1955. [7] [8] The school continues to provide residential care for children and young adults with disabilities, operated by Salutem Healthcare. [9]
Craig-y-parc is a large mansion with the entrance front to the north, and the garden front, onto which all the main receptions rooms face, to the south. [1] The architectural historian John Newman, in his Glamorgan volume of the Buildings of Wales, notes the strong influence of Lutyens. [4] This is seen particularly in the lodge, and in the north frontage, which Newman compares to Little Thakeham. He admires Mallow's originality on the garden front, where a row of columns forms an arcade. [4] The house is constructed of locally quarried stone, with granite dressings. The house is listed at Grade II*. [1] The gardens are also listed at II*, on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. The listing record notes their "strongly axial design" and considers them "a very good example of [an] architectural Edwardian garden". [6] The loggia, [10] and the garden terrace have their own Grade II* listings, [11] while the lodge, [12] and the walls and gate piers at the courtyard entrance are listed Grade II. [13]
Thomas Evans died on 24 December 1943