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Latitude: 52.9131 / 52°54'47"N
Longitude: -4.0994 / 4°5'57"W
OS Eastings: 258925
OS Northings: 337142
OS Grid: SH589371
Mapcode National: GBR 5R.NDNG
Mapcode Global: WH55T.015K
Plus Code: 9C4QWW72+76
Entry Name: Angel Gates (Hercules Gate)
Listing Date: 14 January 1971
Last Amended: 23 August 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 4857
Building Class: Domestic
Also known as: Hercules Gate
ID on this website: 300004857
Location: Opposite the Town Hall entrance.
County: Gwynedd
Community: Penrhyndeudraeth
Community: Penrhyndeudraeth
Locality: Portmeirion
Traditional County: Merionethshire
Tagged with: Gate
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 c1937 to complement the Town Hall building, commenced in that year; a photograph of the Town Hall under construction shows the gates and gate piers alreay in situ. The gates are dated 1908.
A fine set of wrought iron double gates set between 2 full-height rusticated sandstone piers, each surmounted by a cornice and urn. Complex decorative iron overthrow within which is the date 1908. These gates are an important axis and announce Town Hall, the entrance to which is aligned onto them immediately to the SW.
Listed as a fine pair of Edwardian gates and gate piers; 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.
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