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Latitude: 52.913 / 52°54'46"N
Longitude: -4.0985 / 4°5'54"W
OS Eastings: 258984
OS Northings: 337131
OS Grid: SH589371
Mapcode National: GBR 5R.NDW2
Mapcode Global: WH55T.01LM
Plus Code: 9C4QWW72+6H
Entry Name: Watch House
Listing Date: 14 January 1971
Last Amended: 23 August 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 4866
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300004866
Location: Dramatically sited on the cliff top overlooking the hotel and bay.
County: Gwynedd
Community: Penrhyndeudraeth
Community: Penrhyndeudraeth
Locality: Portmeirion
Traditional County: Merionethshire
Tagged with: House
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.
Built in 1925-6 as one of the earliest of the village buildings at Portmeirion. The roof received its present hipped form c1963; it had formerly been pantiled.
Small, single storey building of vernacular cottage character; of whitened rubble with shallow, hipped slate roof. Tall, round lateral chimney with conical cap. The Seaward end (SE-facing) is built out on tapering octagonal columns as a loggia. Small-pane glazing within, with French windows to the centre; small asymmetrically-placed windows with small-pane glazing to the long side elevations.
Listed as one of the earliest and most dramatically-sited of the village buildings; 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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