Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Chantry Row
Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 January 1971
- Locality
- Portmeirion
- Community
- Penrhyndeudraeth
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91362, -4.09826
- Cadw reference
- 4880
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
Located between Chantry and the Pantheon.
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.
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.
Reason for designation
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.
Nearby in the register
- The Pantheon Including Addition to the RearDomesticunder 1 mi
- Columnar Monument Immediately S of ChantryGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- ChantryCivilunder 1 mi
- Statue of BuddhaCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.