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
4861
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/01/1971
Date of Amendment
23/08/2002
Name of Property
The Arches
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Penrhyndeudraeth
Town
Locality
Portmeirion
Easting
258904
Northing
337170
Street Side
Location
On the main street-line, immediately N of the Town Hall.
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.
The Arches was built 1963-4 to designs originated in 1954 and revised 1956. The building originally provided staff accommodation above 3 garages. In 1965 the garages were converted to an antiques shop; the Angel Arcade mural was painted by Hans Feibusch at the time of the conversion.
Exterior
Building of Mediterranean village character comprising 3 storeys plus a dummy attic; rendered elevations with mono-pitch felt roof and wide, overhanging eaves. The 3-bay front facade is symmetrical and has and arcaded ground floor of 3 round headed arches, gently battered to the front and sides. Small-pane glazed shop-front behind the arcade, with glazed door to the centre. 12-pane sashes to the first and second floors, with faux 6-pane windows above; CWE cartouche in cast concrete above the central arcade arch, in the form of a keystone. The central first floor window has a delicate wrought-iron balcony; painted hanging sign to the L , and a lantern bracket attached to the R corner. Irregular window arrangement to the returns, with small-pane windows; painted oval mural plaque to first-floor R return, by Hans Feibusch..
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a former garage and staff accommodation block, one of a number of buildings 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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