Portmeirion Hotel Including Revetment, Balustrade and Sculptures to the Upper Terrace

This is a Victorian former country house, now a large hotel, situated in Portmeirion. The building is constructed of rendered rubble with slate roofs, the main section featuring a fish-scale pattern. It has seven chimneys with grouped Gothic-style terracotta stacks. The original house has two main sections: a principal H-plan and a subsidiary inverted F-plan to the southwest. The design incorporates gables with projecting eaves and plain bargeboards.

The eastern (sea-facing) elevation is five bays wide, with bays 2 and 5 projecting as gabled crosswings. These have arched windows with plain 2-pane sashes to the first floor, each with a moulded label. Bay 2 features a square-headed sash with a returned, moulded label, while bay 5 has a single-storey canted bay with arched, plain-glazed windows. The recessed third and fourth bays have labelled sashes to the upper floor, and a large, flat-roofed bow window to the ground floor, a 20th-century addition with tall, 2-part windows. The recessed first bay to the south has a similar arched first-floor sash, with a ground-floor entrance accessed via a decorative iron porch with a sloped metal canopy.

The north-facing entrance elevation has three bays, with a canted, single-storey porch to the right-hand bay. This incorporates an arched entrance with plain glazed doors and segmental overlight, alongside plain, round-headed windows in the canted returns. The elevation also features arched sash windows with labels to both floors. A large mural by Hans Feibusch is located on the first floor, between bays 1 and 2, and below a flush lateral chimney. To the south of the porch is a bowed, single-storey, flat-roofed restaurant addition with a rectangular bay beyond, featuring cross-windows throughout.

The southern section of the hotel includes two 20th-century, four-storey additions; one is set back slightly. These have rendered elevations and hipped slate roofs. The upper floors have 12-pane sashes and 16-pane, 2-part casements with external wooden slatted shutters. The southern elevation, facing the Observatory Tower, has a depressed arch to the exposed rubble ground floor and a multi-pane window to the first floor above with a decorative wrought iron balcony. The second and third floors have small-pane, 2-part casements with shutters.

Facing the sea immediately in front of the hotel is a Victorian revetted terrace. This is characterised by turned balustrading and classical surmounting statuary. The interiors have been restored following a fire in 1981.