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Latitude: 52.9128 / 52°54'46"N
Longitude: -4.099 / 4°5'56"W
OS Eastings: 258950
OS Northings: 337104
OS Grid: SH589371
Mapcode National: GBR 5R.NDRW
Mapcode Global: WH55T.01CT
Plus Code: 9C4QWW72+49
Entry Name: Fountain
Listing Date: 14 January 1971
Last Amended: 23 August 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 4855
Building Class: Commercial
ID on this website: 300004855
Location: Forming a pair (together with Anchor) of buildings sited in the lower, western part of the village, below the lane leading to the hotel.
County: Gwynedd
Community: Penrhyndeudraeth
Community: Penrhyndeudraeth
Locality: Portmeirion
Traditional County: Merionethshire
Tagged with: Fountain
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 1937 to complement the adjacent Anchor of 1930. In 1941 Sir Noel Coward, entertainer and dramatist, stayed here and, in the course of five days, wrote his celebrated play Blithe Spirit.
Three-storey domestic building with flat felt roof and oversailing eaves; rendered elevations. Symmetrical facade with the 3-window upper storeys over a 3-bay open ground floor; this with flat-arched openings. The upper floors each have 12-pane central doors with decorative iron balconies, and tall flanking 18-pane sashes. Access is to the side elevation (R) via a flight of parapetted steps; shallow wooden verandah projection to the upper floor above an open porch to the first floor.
Listed as one of a number of buildings and structures designed by the eminent architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis for his visionary Portmeirion villiage; of interest also for its associations with Sir Noel Coward, entertainer and dramatist.
Group value with other listed items at Portmeirion.
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