Bolnhurst is one of the earliest houses by the outstanding Arts and Crafts architect, Herbert Luck North (1871-1941), who lived and worked in Llanfairfechan from c.1901. Built c.1898-9, the house illustrates the young North combining ideas from his early country house projects, for example the eyebrow dormer and the rounded window and door heads, with features from vernacular Welsh buildings, such as the diagonally-set chimney and the moss slate roof.

The house is L-plan, of two storeys. The walls are of roughcast stone, the windows are cottage-style timber casements and the roof of small graded slates. The rear (NE) roof sweeps down over the ground floor, remarkably similar to Voysey's Moorcrag (Windermere), of exactly the same date. The rounded-corner outshut facing the road accommodates the sitting room ingle which is divided from the main space by a steep Gothic arch, an early occurrence of this typical North feature.

Adam Voelcker, 9 October 2009.