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
4877
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/01/1971
Date of Amendment
23/08/2002
Name of Property
Ladies Lodge (Siop Bach)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Penrhyndeudraeth
Town
Locality
Portmeirion
Easting
258998
Northing
337166
Street Side
Location
On the northern corner of Battery Square, opposite the Statue of Buddha and adjoining Round House via an arch.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
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.
One of the last pre-war structures to be built at Portmeirion, the Lady's Lodge dates from 1938-9; it was originally built as a lock-up garage. It incorporates a mural by Hans Feibusch (1898-1998). In the 1960s the building was converted into a shop called Battery Stores and subsequently The Peacock.
Exterior
Small rectangular shop in baroque manner; rendered elevations above a rubble plinth with pantile roof and shaped, scrolled gable parapets to the NW and SE ends. The SE (square-facing) end has a single-storey canted shop-front window with small-pane glazing, and a segmental mural by Hans Feibusch above; lattice window in the gable apex. The NW end has a 12-pane sash window with arched fan over and a decorative iron balcony in front; above is a vertical lattice window. The NE side has an arched niche to the L (containing a floral urn) with a lunette window to the R; under the eaves to the centre is a Jacobean window with splayed sandstone surround, probably re-used from Emral Hall, Flintshire. There are hanging signs and bracket lanterns to the corners.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusual baroque-style shop structure; 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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