Anchor is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 January 1971. Domestic building.
Anchor
- WRENN ID
- deep-gable-cream
- 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
- Anchor, Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth
- OS grid reference
- SH 589 370
- Coordinates
- 52.91273, -4.09902
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Anchor is a four-storey domestic building from the 19th century, designed in a Mediterranean style. It features stuccoed elevations and a hipped pantiled roof with a shallow pitch and slightly feathered eaves. The symmetrical main elevation on the east side has four bays, with a rubble ground floor that includes large flat-arched openings resembling an arcade, which are fitted with slatted wooden gates. The upper floors have four full-length sash windows with six panes each, featuring only horizontal glazing bars. There are open faux iron balconies shared between the outer bays. The two-bay south return has 12-pane sash windows on the three upper floors. Access to the Anchor is via a bridge at first floor level, along with steps leading from the road. Additionally, there is a mural to the right of the road-facing elevation.
Local climate
Anchor 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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