Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Forecourt Walls and Balustrading at Cliff House
Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, designated on 23 August 2002.
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
- 52.91378, -4.09725
- Cadw reference
- 26874
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In front of Cliff House and its annex, facing the lane and flanking the short drive to the house; continuing around the side of the house to enclose a raised terrace facing South.
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.
Erected in 1971 and associated with the Cliff House annex, designed in 1970.
Exterior
Low decorative balustrading, consisting of sections of turned reconstituted stone baluster with rendered piers acting as divisions; moulded capping. Adjoining the Cliff House Annex to the N is a section of rendered screen wall with three round-arched openings and similar balustrades. A short section of balustrading defines a terrace immediately to the N of the house and similarly defines a larger cliff-top terrace to the S.
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
- Statue of HuntsmanGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Cliff House Including AnnexDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Tollhouse (Now Public Telephone Kiosk)Gardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- The Gate HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.