The Belvedere, Including Associated Terraces is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 January 1971. House.
The Belvedere, Including Associated Terraces
- WRENN ID
- third-plinth-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Belvedere, Including Associated Terraces, Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth
- OS grid reference
- SH 590 371
- Coordinates
- 52.91355, -4.09786
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Belvedere is a simple Classical house dating from the 19th century, featuring two storeys and a T-plan layout. The exterior is finished in stucco with a hipped slate roof and deep eaves. The main southwest elevation has three bays, with a wide arch in the center that contains a recessed tripartite door with small-pane glazing. It is flanked by twelve-pane sash windows, which have external shutters and are separated by full-height plain pilasters. The central bay on the first floor includes an iron-balustraded balcony accessed by a small-pane glazed door.
The main entrance is located to the northwest, accessed via a sloped canopy porch that protrudes at the angle between the main southwest and rear northeast wings, featuring a small-pane glazed door. Above the porch is a small-pane glazed oculus, with a twelve-pane sash window to the left on the ground floor, alongside a small six-pane light. The advanced section to the right is the hipped end wall of the main southwest block, which also has twelve-pane sashes and stucco end pilasters.
A short section of wall with an open arch connects the Belvedere to the rear range of the Pantheon. Immediately to the south of the Belvedere, built into a rock outcrop, is a near semi-circular slate-paved terrace that faces the lane and the estuary beyond. This terrace is approximately 4 meters wide and features a 1-meter high rendered brick parapet with faux gun loops facing the lane. Eight steps lead down from this terrace to a part-cobbled forecourt area in front of the Belvedere. Adjacent to this terrace to the northeast is a smaller triangular terrace with a parapet similar to the larger one.
Local climate
The Belvedere, Including Associated Terraces sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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