Casting a gloomy spectre over a Welsh coastal town is a unique property known locally as the “spooky house”.
Craig Y Môr has perched on the coast of Holy Island in Trearddur Bay in Anglesey for more than a hundred years. Designed by Liverpool architect FG Hicks, construction of the house began in 1911.
The work ceased during the First World War and the house was finally completed in around 1919. It was built for a wealthy Englishman called William Smellie, who was one of a number of people to build holiday homes around Porth Diana at the time.
Carig Y Môr was used as a summer house until the late 1920's when William Smellie was ill and decided to move there permanently with his wife, Ethel. 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 Daily Post reports .
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.
It has most recently been used as a photo shoot and film location and featured on the ITV crime drama Safe House a few years ago. Earlier this week, television presenter Tmmy Mallett visited the house and tweeted a picture of it with the caption: ""Is this the Psycho house? Spooky!" Its austere design and its elevated position on the headland makes it eerily similar to Norman Bates' house and it's clear to see why it has proved a popular location for filming and photo shoots in recent years.
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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