Portmeirion Pottery and Gifts

Portmeirion Pottery and Gifts is part of a row of four late-Georgian style three-storey two-window shops with houses above, located at 1-9 High Street. The buildings feature slate-hung fronts and a slate roof hipped at the right end, where the corner is also splayed. Transverse stone stacks rise through the roofline, with a fourth pebble-dashed stack at the right end. The four houses are not of equal width, with No. 1 being the widest, and Nos. 7 and 9 narrower than No. 3.

No. 9 (Portmeirion Pottery and Gifts) retains a late nineteenth-century shopfront with a replacement window and recessed entrance to the left with a replacement glazed door. The middle and upper storeys have hornless sash windows, with the glazing bars in the lower sashes removed.

The left gable end is constructed of large blocks of unworked slate-stone laid in regular courses in the lower and middle storeys, with roughcast above. The lower storey contains inserted paired horned sash windows, and the left side has small-pane sash windows in both lower and middle storeys. The upper storey has a small-pane sash window to the right.

The rear elevation is of rubble laid in rough courses. No. 9 retains some small-pane sashes. Nos. 7-9 have a two-storey rear roughcast wing with a pebble-dashed front facing the side lane. This wing contains twentieth-century horned sash windows, renewed external steps at the left end leading to a replacement first-floor door, and a half-glazed door and shop window inserted into a former wide doorway.