26870

 

II  

Designated  

23/08/2002  

23/08/2002  

Pond, Walls and Steps Immediately E of Trinity  

 

Gwynedd  

Penrhyndeudraeth  

 

Portmeirion  

258929  

337180  

 

Occupying the western part of the main central village area, adjacent to the Central Piazza and to the NW of Mermaid.  

Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces  

 

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.  

Pond of irregular oval plan with low rubble retaining walls. At the N end is a depressed-arch with carved classical head forming an applied keystone. Above this the revettment slopes up to form a hump in the middle with a surmounting angel figure; this section of wall has brick copings and flanking urns. A metalled path leads around the perimeter of the pond.  

 

Listed as one of a number of buildings and structures erected by the eminent architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis for his visionary Portmeirion villiage. Group value with other listed items at Portmeirion.