Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
26878
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/08/2002
Date of Amendment
23/08/2002
Name of Property
Corrugated Iron Shelter
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Penrhyndeudraeth
Town
Locality
Portmeirion
Easting
258851
Northing
337290
Street Side
Location
In the Gwyllt, at the end of a path running NW from the small Piazza.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
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 more substantial of Sir Clough's corrugated iron structures, built after 1953; in his declining years CWE is said to have often sat in this shelter.
Exterior
Decorative aedicular shelter of painted corrugated iron construction; in the form of a tented pavilion with fictive swags; central raised ball and star finial and flanking fleurs-de-lis, all two dimensonal and of cut-out form. This structure contains a slatted bench in the summer months.
Interior
Reason for designation
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.
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