Capel House
Capel House (now known as The Gore) is a detached house at 25 Llantrisant Road in the Llandaff district of Cardiff, Wales. It was designed by the Welsh modernist architect Graham Brooks of Hird & Brooks and built in 1966.[1] It is noted for its distinctive modernist use of painted white brick, exposed timber joints and a flat roof.[2]
Brooks was greatly influenced by Danish modernist architecture, and had designed his personal residence in a modernist style in 1964. Capel House was awarded the T. Alwyn Lloyd memorial Gold Medal for Architecture at the National Eisteddfod of Wales of 1968.[3][4] Capel House was the model for Hird & Brooks's The Mount development of sixteen single-storey houses in Dinas Powys.[2]
It was featured in the Daily Mail Book of Bungalow Plans 1968/69, and Alan Powers' 2007 book Britain: Modern Architectures in History.[1][5][6]
The house received a Commendation in the Civic Trust Awards of 1966.[7][8]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Building 3542". UK Modern House. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ a b John B. Hilling (15 August 2018). The Architecture of Wales: From the First to the Twenty-First Century. University of Wales Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-78683-285-6.
- ^ "Danish-inspired pioneer of Welsh modernism Graham Brooks dies, aged 92". Architects' Journal. Archived from the original on 12 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ "Gold Medal for Architecture". National Eisteddfod of Wales. Archived from the original on 29 July 2014.
- ^ Daily Mail (1968). 'Daily Mail' Book of Bungalow Plans. Daily Mail. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-85144-010-1.
- ^ Alan Powers (2007). Britain. Reaktion Books. p. 161. ISBN 978-1-86189-281-2.
- ^ "House in Llantrisant Road". Civic Trust Awards. Archived from the original on 12 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ Holland, Edward; Holder, Julian (March 2019). "Advice to Inform Post-War Listing in Wales" (PDF). Cadw. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 November 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.