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
4890
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/01/1971
Date of Amendment
23/08/2002
Name of Property
Hercules Statue
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Penrhyndeudraeth
Town
Locality
Portmeirion
Easting
258940
Northing
337152
Street Side
Location
Opposite the Town Hall and Hercules Gates, at the top of the Hercules Steps.
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
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.
Bronze statue of Hercules by William Brodie (1815-1881), cast c1863. Erected in this location in 1960.
Exterior
Life-sized bronze statue of Hercules carrying the globe; on a tall, 2-stage rendered pedestal. A plaque is affixed dedicated "to the summer of 1959, in honour of its splendour"; other plaques to 1971,73 and 75.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as one of a number of buildings and structures designed or erected 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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