Английская Википедия:Craig-y-parc House
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox historic site 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.
History
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.Шаблон:Sfn His major work was Tirley Garth in Cheshire, another Lutyenseque house for another rich industrialist.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6][7] The school continues to provide residential care for children and young adults with disabilities, operated by Salutem Healthcare.[8]
Architecture and description
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.Шаблон:Sfn 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.Шаблон:Sfn 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".[5] The loggia,[9] and the garden terrace have their own Grade II* listings,[10] while the lodge, [11] and the walls and gate piers at the courtyard entrance are listed Grade II.[12]
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- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 Шаблон:National Historic Assets of Wales
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- ↑ 5,0 5,1 Шаблон:NHAW
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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- ↑ Шаблон:National Historic Assets of Wales
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