Latitude: 52.9248 / 52°55'29"N
Longitude: -4.0894 / 4°5'21"W
OS Eastings: 259640
OS Northings: 338419
OS Grid: SH596384
Mapcode National: GBR 5R.MWMD
Mapcode Global: WH55M.4RY4
Plus Code: 9C4QWWF6+W7
Entry Name: Entrance Piers at the Minffordd Approach to Portmeirion
Listing Date: 23 August 2002
Last Amended: 23 August 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 26888
Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
ID on this website: 300026888
Location: Set back slightly from the main road at its junction with the access road to Portmeirion.
County: Gwynedd
Community: Penrhyndeudraeth
Community: Penrhyndeudraeth
Locality: Portmeirion
Traditional County: Merionethshire
Tagged with: Gatepost
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.
Pair of entrance piers; of whitened cement blocks in three diminishing stages and with stopped-chamfered edges; on square plinth bases. Each pier is surmounted by a square vase of reconstituted stone with figurative relief decoration to the sides.
Listed as a pair of C20 entrance piers erected by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, architect and conservationist, as part of his inspired Portmeirion Village.
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