Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
26872
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
23/08/2002  
Date of Amendment
23/08/2002  
Name of Property
C19 Wall Adjoining Bridge House to the E  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Penrhyndeudraeth  
Town
 
Locality
Portmeirion  
Easting
259055  
Northing
337177  
Street Side
 
Location
On the S side of the road between Bridge House and the Gatehouse, with the Grotto beyond.  

Description


Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces  
Period
 

History
Portmeirion was designed and laid out by the celebrated architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis (1883-1978) following his purchase of the estate, then called Aber Iâ, in 1926. The village evolved over several decades and was still being added to in the 1970s. Second-quarter C19 wall and arch associated with the original house of Aber Ia, now the Portmeirion Hotel; alterations by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis.  

Exterior
Rubble wall with a maximum height of approximately 2.5m; this adjoins Bridge House to the E and curves gently outwards and downwards facing the estuary. There is a gap approximately a third of the way along with a plain cast iron balcony with rendered rubble flanking piers and surmounting cast iron fluted vases. The wall continues until it terminates in a circular pier at the cliff edge. In the centre of this last section, opposite a flight of steps leading down from the road in front of the Gatehouse, is a cyclopean, Tudor-arched slate entrance with walls sloped up to the L and R.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as a C19 wall and arch associated with the original house of Aber Ia; one of a number of buildings and structures erected or altered by the eminent architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis for his visionary Portmeirion villiage. Group value with other listed items at Portmeirion.  

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