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Chantry Row

A Grade II Listed Building in Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9136 / 52°54'49"N

Longitude: -4.0982 / 4°5'53"W

OS Eastings: 259006

OS Northings: 337195

OS Grid: SH590371

Mapcode National: GBR 5R.NDY2

Mapcode Global: WH55T.01Q5

Plus Code: 9C4QWW72+FP

Entry Name: Chantry Row

Listing Date: 14 January 1971

Last Amended: 23 August 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4880

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300004880

Location: Located between Chantry and the Pantheon.

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.

Chantry Row was built 1962-3 to designs of February 1962 and consists of two units, designed to give the impression of a terrace of four cottages. A faux tower with onion dome hides a boiler chimney.

Exterior

Single-storey flat-roofed building arranged to simulate a terrace of 4 houses. Stucco fronts painted different colours and with 5 dummy windows under the eaves to imply an attic storey; wide overhanging eaves. There are nine bays with 12-pane sashes alternating asymmetrically with 12-pane glazed doors, the latter with iron railed balconys. These doors are (from L-R) to bays 2,5,7 &8. At the west end is half an octagonal turret with onion dome above, built to conceal chimney, and finished in green in imitation of copper.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a distinctive faux terrace; 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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