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
4875
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/01/1971
Date of Amendment
23/08/2002
Name of Property
The Bridge House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Penrhyndeudraeth
Town
Locality
Portmeirion
Easting
259027
Northing
337166
Street Side
Location
The second of the gateways into the village; below the Pantheon.
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 1959, and one of the more ambitious and successful of CWE's second phase works at Portmeirion. He described it as:` a classical thing, meticulously detailed....known locally as Carlton House Terrace.'
Exterior
Imposing gatehouse in elegant classical style, built over the carriageway with 2 storeys over a tunnel arch. Rendered elevations with shallow slate roof. The main facade is on the south, village side. This has a rusticated podium, pierced by a rusticated basket arch. The upper storeys have a main, 3-bay section immediately above the arch, with 12-pane sashes flanked by Doric pilasters; surmounting cornice and coping, the whole composition topped by 4 tall urns. To the left is a projecting 2-storey canted bay window with similar sashes to each face. The rear elevation has one large ogee-arched window to the centre with moulded sandstone surround; diamond panes and coloured glass. Below this is an inset decorative iron mermaid panel.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a particularly successful gatehouse building; 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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