Prior's Lodging is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 January 1971. Townhouse.

Prior's Lodging

WRENN ID
young-flint-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 January 1971
Type
Townhouse
Address
Prior's Lodging, Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth
OS grid reference
SH 589 371
Coordinates
52.91325, -4.09838
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Prior's Lodging is a small two-storey cottage with rendered walls and a mono-pitch pantiled roof that faces the square, featuring sprocket eaves. On the left side, there is a 19th-century Gothic stone archway with a Tudor-arched head and a boarded door. The center of the building has a 6-pane vertical window with external shutters. To the right, there is a recessed round-headed loggia that contains a 2-pane window. The upper floor features two small windows, one on the left with 4 panes and one on the right with 6 panes.

The rear elevation, which faces the estuary, has three tall round-headed windows that extend the height of two storeys, with a decorative lunette below and small flanking lights. To the right of this elevation is a segmental tunnel arch leading to the ground floor. Both the rear and west side elevations have parapets that conceal the roof, with the west side featuring a baroque-style volute at the left end. The main entrance is located on the west side, accessed through an applied baroque wooden doorcase topped with a cartouche. To the left of the entrance is a 12-pane sash window with external wooden shutters and a Renaissance-style head-plaque above.

Local climate

Prior's Lodging 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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