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
4855
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/01/1971
Date of Amendment
23/08/2002
Name of Property
Fountain
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Penrhyndeudraeth
Town
Locality
Portmeirion
Easting
258950
Northing
337104
Street Side
Location
Forming a pair (together with Anchor) of buildings sited in the lower, western part of the village, below the lane leading to the hotel.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
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.
Built in 1937 to complement the adjacent Anchor of 1930. In 1941 Sir Noel Coward, entertainer and dramatist, stayed here and, in the course of five days, wrote his celebrated play Blithe Spirit.
Exterior
Three-storey domestic building with flat felt roof and oversailing eaves; rendered elevations. Symmetrical facade with the 3-window upper storeys over a 3-bay open ground floor; this with flat-arched openings. The upper floors each have 12-pane central doors with decorative iron balconies, and tall flanking 18-pane sashes. Access is to the side elevation (R) via a flight of parapetted steps; shallow wooden verandah projection to the upper floor above an open porch to the first floor.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as one of a number of buildings and structures designed by the eminent architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis for his visionary Portmeirion villiage; of interest also for its associations with Sir Noel Coward, entertainer and dramatist.
Group value with other listed items at Portmeirion.
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