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
4872
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/01/1971
Date of Amendment
23/08/2002
Name of Property
Reception (Chantry Lodge)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Penrhyndeudraeth
Town
Locality
Portmeirion
Easting
259052
Northing
337242
Street Side
Location
The first main building at the entrance of the village; set back slightly to the NW of the village lane.
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.
Built in 1969 to designs of 1968; an administrative and reception block.
Exterior
Simple building of domestic character; T-plan. Of 2 storeys with stucco elevations and slate roof with projecting end chimney to the L. The front elevation has 4 windows of which those at ground floor level have 12-pane sashes and those above have casements with diamond panes. Arched doorway to the left of centre with multipane door, and further arched entrance to the far L. The left gable end has a projecting porch to the first floor above an arched bridge, with parapetted curving walls flanking a high-level access path; arched entrance to the porch, with multi-pane door, as before. Storeyed rear projection with hipped roof; sashes and casements as before.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as 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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