4866

 

II  

Designated  

14/01/1971  

23/08/2002  

Watch House  

 

Gwynedd  

Penrhyndeudraeth  

 

Portmeirion  

258984  

337131  

 

Dramatically sited on the cliff top overlooking the hotel and bay.  

Domestic  

 

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 1925-6 as one of the earliest of the village buildings at Portmeirion. The roof received its present hipped form c1963; it had formerly been pantiled.  

Small, single storey building of vernacular cottage character; of whitened rubble with shallow, hipped slate roof. Tall, round lateral chimney with conical cap. The Seaward end (SE-facing) is built out on tapering octagonal columns as a loggia. Small-pane glazing within, with French windows to the centre; small asymmetrically-placed windows with small-pane glazing to the long side elevations.  

 

Listed as one of the earliest and most dramatically-sited of the village buildings; 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.