Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
4857
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/01/1971
Date of Amendment
23/08/2002
Name of Property
Angel Gates (Hercules Gate)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Penrhyndeudraeth
Town
Locality
Portmeirion
Easting
258925
Northing
337142
Street Side
Location
Opposite the Town Hall entrance.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
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.
Erected c1937 to complement the Town Hall building, commenced in that year; a photograph of the Town Hall under construction shows the gates and gate piers alreay in situ. The gates are dated 1908.
Exterior
A fine set of wrought iron double gates set between 2 full-height rusticated sandstone piers, each surmounted by a cornice and urn. Complex decorative iron overthrow within which is the date 1908. These gates are an important axis and announce Town Hall, the entrance to which is aligned onto them immediately to the SW.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine pair of Edwardian gates and gate piers; one of a number of buildings and structures designed 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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