[2] In 1914, Evans commissioned Charles Edward Mallows to build a house some seven miles north of Cardiff in woods close to the village of Pentyrch.

Mallows, who died the year after work had begun,[3] was an architect in the Arts and Crafts style, much influenced by Edwin Lutyens.

[1] Following Evans' death in 1943, Craig-y-parc came into the possession of the National Coal Board before being sold in 1954 to the Spastics Society which opened a residential school at the site in 1955.

[7][8] The school continues to provide residential care for children and young adults with disabilities, operated by Salutem Healthcare.

[1] The architectural historian John Newman, in his Glamorgan volume of the Buildings of Wales, notes the strong influence of Lutyens.