Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 January 1971. Domestic building. 1 related planning application.

Fountain

WRENN ID
carved-fireplace-violet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 January 1971
Type
Domestic building
Address
Fountain, Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth, LL48 6ER
OS grid reference
SH 589 371
Coordinates
52.91281, -4.09906
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Fountain is a three-storey domestic building dating from the 19th century. It features a flat felt roof with oversailing eaves and rendered elevations. The symmetrical facade has three windows on the upper storeys above a three-bay open ground floor, which includes flat-arched openings. Each upper floor has a 12-pane central door with decorative iron balconies, flanked by tall 18-pane sash windows. Access to the building is via the side elevation on the right, which is reached by a flight of parapetted steps. There is a shallow wooden verandah projection on the upper floor above an open porch on the first floor.

Local climate

Fountain 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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