4877

 

II  

Designated  

14/01/1971  

23/08/2002  

Ladies Lodge (Siop Bach)  

 

Gwynedd  

Penrhyndeudraeth  

 

Portmeirion  

258998  

337166  

 

On the northern corner of Battery Square, opposite the Statue of Buddha and adjoining Round House via an arch.  

Commercial  

 

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.  

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.  

 

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.