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Watch House

A Grade II Listed Building in Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

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

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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 IĆ¢, 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.

Exterior

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.

Reasons for Listing

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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