Isfryn

Isfryn: Nos 1-15 Arenig Street (odd), Including Forecourt Walls and Railings, and Associated Yard Walls and Outbuildings to the Rear

A highly accomplished Edwardian terrace built in 1909 in the English baroque style. The hoppers are dated.

The building comprises a refined two-and-a-half storey terrace of 8 houses. It is constructed of good quality red brickwork to the facade and sides, with buff sandstone dressings and original roughcast treatment to the rear elevation. The roof is a continuous hipped slate design with feathered, oversailing eaves featuring wooden dentilated treatment. There are 5 chimneys with sandstone cappings; those to the far right (Nos 1 and 2) are rendered.

The terrace is symmetrical and conceived as an overall composition of 18 bays. Four paired bays to the centre and ends are advanced (bays 1, 5 & 7, 9 & 11, 15). The centre pairs have large segmental pedimented gables with rolled leaded roofs, whilst the outer pairs have hipped slated roofs. Each advanced pair has projecting sandstone ashlar quoins. The outer advanced pairs each have 2 elegant sash windows to the ground and first floors (18 panes to the ground, 12 panes to the first), with flat arches featuring fine brick voussoirs and geometric stone keys. The central advanced pairs have similar first-floor windows, with paired 4-panel doors and rectangular overlights to the ground floor. The recessed end bays (1 & 5) have similar first-floor windows with corresponding entrances. The remaining ground-floor bays (3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13) have canted bay windows with 18-pane central sashes and 12-pane flanking sashes, with shaped moulded parapets to flat roofs, keystones and voussoirs as before. The attic floor has 8 large flat-roofed dormers, each with a 16-pane casement.

The rear elevation is roughcast with segmentally-arched 12-pane sashes (22 to the first floor) and 8 slate-hung dormers. Each unit has a ground-floor rear entrance giving access to a small brick-walled yard with boarded entrance and a wash-house/coal store block to the rear, with some blocks shared between two units. The terrace retains its original low brick forecourt walls to the front, surmounted by iron railings and gates in Art Nouveau style.