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
4870
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/01/1971
Date of Amendment
23/08/2002
Name of Property
Battery
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Penrhyndeudraeth
Town
Locality
Portmeirion
Easting
259006
Northing
337150
Street Side
Location
In the centre of Battery Square, between Toll house and Prior's Lodging.
Description
Broad Class
Defence
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.
Built in 1927 in Kentish vernacular style, Battery appears as `Block C' on a plan dated 21st March 1927. One of the earliest of the buildings at Portmeirion. The Chart Room, on the ground floor, served as a garage space until 1953.
Exterior
Three-storey house in weather-boarded vernacular style with rendered ground floor; pitched slate roof brought down to L and R over lean-to blocks, though with near-flush facade; lain rendered chimney. Asymmetrical elevations, that to the front, facing Battery square, with a slightly-recessed lean-to section to the L; this has a parapeted L-shaped stair giving access to the first floor, the whole covered by a wide arch. The main block, to the R has a narrow arched entrance off-centre to the R with recessed boarded door; small 4-pane window beyond. L of the entrance is a 12-pane sash wih external shutters and a lunette window to its L. Further 12-pane shuttered sash to the first floor L, with small, square, 4-pane windows to the R; similar second-floor window with taller, 6-pane flanking windows.
Nine-pane sashes to the weather-boarded rear elevation, those to the ground floor in tripartite windows with narrow 4-pane outer sections. Partly-recessed terrace to the first floor L, with plain railings. A lower storeyed projection to the L has irregular roof pitches and a canted bay to the ground floor; this contains the Chart Room; 12-pane sashes, with lunette windows to the ground floor L as before.
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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