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
4869
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/01/1971
Date of Amendment
23/08/2002
Name of Property
Prior's Lodging
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Penrhyndeudraeth
Town
Locality
Portmeirion
Easting
258997
Northing
337152
Street Side
Location
Facing Battery Square, adoining Battery.
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.
Prior's Lodging was built in 1929 as part of the Battery Square development and was conceived in Kentish vernacular style. The name derrives from the building's first tennant, the Prior of the Monastery of Caldy. The entrance has a Baroque Italian doorway taken from Sir Clough's London studio.
Exterior
Small cottage of 2-storeys with rendered elevations and mono-pitch, pantiled roof facing the square; sprocket eaves. C19 Gothic stone archway to the L with Tudor-arched head and boarded door; 6-pane vertical window to the centre with external shutters. To the R is a recessed, round-headed loggia with 2-pane window within. The upper floor has 2 small lights, that to the L of 4 panes and that to the R of 6. The rear elevation, facing the estuary, has 3 tall, round headed windows the height of 2 storeys, with a decorative lunette below; this with small flanking lights. To the R is a segmental tunnel arch to the ground floor. This elevation and that to the side (W) have parapets concealing the roof, that to the side elevation with terminating baroque-style volute to the L. The main entrance is on this W side, via an applied baroque wooden doorcase with surmounting cartouche; 12-pane sash to the L with external wooden shutters and Renaissance-style head-plaque above.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a distinctive and early village building in Kentish vernacular style; 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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