William Eden Nesfield (1835-88)

English Arts-and-Crafts architect. Articled to William Burn (1851), in 1863 he set up an office with Norman Shaw, but practised independently. Many of his finest domestic buildings were in the Queen Anne style, which he appears to have inaugurated, starting with the C17-style Lodge at Regent’s Park, London, followed by his masterpiece, Kinmel Park, Denbighshire (1866-74), and then Bodrhyddan, Flintshire, (1872-4), both in Wales. His importance lies in his influence on the evolution of the English Domestic Revival, and in the charm of his Queen Anne buildings. One of his finest designs was Cloverley Hall, which featured mullioned-and-transomed windows, and a free use of Gothic and C17 features.