Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pond, Walls and Steps Immediately E of Trinity
Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 23 August 2002
- Locality
- Portmeirion
- Community
- Penrhyndeudraeth
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91347, -4.09939
- Cadw reference
- 26870
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Occupying the western part of the main central village area, adjacent to the Central Piazza and to the NW of Mermaid.
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.
Exterior
Pond of irregular oval plan with low rubble retaining walls. At the N end is a depressed-arch with carved classical head forming an applied keystone. Above this the revettment slopes up to form a hump in the middle with a surmounting angel figure; this section of wall has brick copings and flanking urns. A metalled path leads around the perimeter of the pond.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of a number of buildings and structures erected by the eminent architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis for his visionary Portmeirion villiage.
Group value with other listed items at Portmeirion.
Nearby in the register
- Trinity House Including Adjacent Petrol PumpDomesticunder 1 mi
- MermaidDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls and Gateways Edging the Central Piazza to the NWGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- NeptuneDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.