A building perched on a rocky headland overlooking a popular holiday destination is known locally as the "spooky house".
Craig Y Môr has occupied the dramatic position on the coast of Holy Island in Trearddur Bay, Anglesey for over a hundred years. Construction on the neo-Georgia style property, built by Liverpool architect FG Hicks, began in 1911. The work ceased during WWI with the house being completed around 1919.
It was built for wealthy Englishman William Smellie who was one of the first to build holiday homes around Porth Diana at the time. The house was used as a summer home until the late 1920s when William Smellie was ill and decided to move there permanently with his wife Ethel.
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Mr Smellie died in 1955, followed by Mrs Smellie six years later, and the house was later passed to their third daughter, Ruth, in 1978. The house then fell into the hands of hers and Edward Jones' children and it continues to be owned by the Jones family today. As well as being the home of the Smellies, Craig Y Môr also housed soldiers who were stationed at the Cliff Hotel for a brief period during the Second World War.
NorthWalesLive reported the house was used in a photo shoot and film location, featuring on the ITV crime drama Safe House a few years ago. Television presenter Timmy Mallett visited the house and tweeted a picture of it with the caption: "Is this the Psycho house? Spooky."
Craig Y Môr became a Grade II listed building in 1998 for being a "boldly designed early 20th century house, ambitious in scale, dramatic in massing, and refined in detail; prominent local coastal landmark." The house has remained largely untouched over the years and looks almost exactly the same - both inside and out - as it did back in 1919, but the sense of mystery that surrounds it continues to grow each day.
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