Angel

Cadw's description

Location

Opposite the Town Hall, adjoining Neptune.

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.

Angel and the adjoining Neptune were built in Arts and Crafts idiom in 1926; they represent the earliest of the village buildings designed by CWE and were designated `Block A' and `Block B' in early drawings.

Exterior

Two-storey building of domestic character in Arts and Crafts style. Rendered elevations with slightly oversailing upper floor and slate roof; tall rendered chimney. L-shaped plan with rounded ends and concave curved corner, giving distinctive character. The main, SE elevation has a pair of multi-pane French doors deeply recessed to the ground floor of the southern arm, with the upper storey advanced over and supported on a tapering chamfered column. Two single multi-pane glazed doors to the concave centre and R, each with a small square window to the L and R respectively. The upper storey has two 2-part, 12-pane metal casements to each of the bowed ends, with two small square lights to the centre. The western side, facing the road, has a part-glazed door to the bowed corner, with small square lights to R and L; casement window above, as before. To the L, extruded in the angle with the adjoining building (Neptune), is a storeyed, flat-roofed porch carried on a single corner column and with open lower section; casement windows to the upper section. There are various plaques and painted signs to the exterior.

Reason for designation

Listed as an well-composed Arts and Crafts building, one of the earliest 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.