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
4862
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
14/01/1971  
Date of Amendment
23/08/2002  
Name of Property
Gothick Pavilion  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Penrhyndeudraeth  
Town
 
Locality
Portmeirion  
Easting
258966  
Northing
337162  
Street Side
 
Location
Facing the Central Piazza on the SE side.  

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 Gothick Pavilion was originally built c1815 as a porch for Nerquis Hall, Flintshire, perhaps to designs by Benjamin Gummow. It was re-erected at Portmeirion, in amended form, in 1966, and was dedicated to the memory of William Madocks, as recorded in a plaque of 1973.  

Exterior
Pavilion in Gothick style, consisting of a tall loggia with four clustered columns in stone supporting an entablature with frieze of Gothic pattern. Castellated parapet, raised over the centre in pediment form; four tall surmounting obelisk finials topped by urns. Trefoil-headed open arch to the rear wall. A flight of three cobbled steps leads up to the structure.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as an early C19 porch, formerly at Nerquis Hall, Flintshire, rebuilt and incorporated by the eminent architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis in his visionary Portmeirion villiage. Group value with other listed items at Portmeirion.  

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