The Bridge House is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 January 1971. Gatehouse.
The Bridge House
- WRENN ID
- tall-kitchen-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1971
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Address
- The Bridge House, Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth
- OS grid reference
- SH 590 371
- Coordinates
- 52.91338, -4.09794
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Bridge House is an imposing gatehouse built in an elegant classical style, constructed over the carriageway with two storeys above a tunnel arch. The elevations are rendered, and it features a shallow slate roof. The main facade faces south, towards the village. This facade includes a rusticated podium with a rusticated basket arch. Above the arch, there is a three-bay section with 12-pane sash windows flanked by Doric pilasters, and it is topped with a cornice and coping, culminating in four tall urns. To the left, there is a projecting two-storey canted bay window with similar sash windows on each face. The rear elevation features a large ogee-arched window at the centre, which has a moulded sandstone surround and is filled with diamond panes and coloured glass. Below this window, there is an inset decorative iron panel depicting a mermaid.
Local climate
The Bridge House 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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