Triumphal Arch Including Adjoining Service Block to the NW, Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.914 / 52°54'50"N

Longitude: -4.0997 / 4°5'58"W

OS Eastings: 258911

OS Northings: 337234

OS Grid: SH589372

Mapcode National: GBR 5R.NDM2

Mapcode Global: WH55T.001X

Plus Code: 9C4QWW72+H4

Entry Name: Triumphal Arch Including Adjoining Service Block to the NW

Listing Date: 14 January 1971

Last Amended: 23 August 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4887

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300004887

Location: At the start of the northern (service) access road leading to and from the village, adjoining the small piazza.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Penrhyndeudraeth

Locality: Portmeirion

Traditional County: Merionethshire

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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.

Designed and built 1962-3 as an entrance and focus for a new service road which was laid out at that time. It incorporates an early C19 wooden model for a series of lead caryatids.

Exterior

Triumphal gateway in Rococo style. Stuccoed brick with raised stucco quoins and banding. Rusticated arch over carriageway beneath high pediment inscribed by 2 massive scrolls with a semi-circular top. In the centre of the pediment is a round headed niche, with shell cartouche over. The niche contains a classical female figure. Applied cartouches of cast concrete to each pier flanking the arch. This archway, by which the visitor may leave the village, complements the 2 entrance gateways.

Adjoining the gateway to the NW is a single-storey service block with rendered elevations and mono-pitch corrugated iron roof. The block has three round-arched entrances with boarded doors and vertically-slatted upper sections; a small link section of wall adjoins stepped-down to the L with small road-arched entrance and boarded door.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a well-conceived Rococo-style arch; one of a number of buildings designed by the eminent architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis for his visionary Portmeirion villiage.

Group value with other listed items at Portmeirion.

External Links

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II Gloriette
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II Revetment Wall Immediately N of The Arches, Including Associated Columnar and Urn Monuments
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Triumphal Arch Including Adjoining Service Block to the NW

A Grade II Listed Building in Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd