Salutation is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 January 1971. Stable complex.
Salutation
- WRENN ID
- fading-casement-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1971
- Type
- Stable complex
- Address
- Salutation, Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth
- OS grid reference
- SH 589 372
- Coordinates
- 52.91389, -4.09949
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Salutation is a U-shaped former stable complex dating from the 19th century, featuring one-and-a-half storeys arranged around a courtyard paved with black and white quarry flags. The building is constructed from coursed stone, partly rendered, and topped with medium-steep pitched roofs covered in fish-scale slates. To the left, there is a chimney with triple twisted terracotta Gothic stacks.
The central section is recessed and has glazed small-pane doors at its center, topped with a decorative sloped metal canopy porch. The roof includes three flat-roofed dormers, each with 2-part 12-pane casements. The left wing of the building has two large arched windows on both the gable end and the inner east side, the latter featuring a trompe l'oeil window in the center. Above the gable end windows is a small Gothic tracery oculus, accompanied by a decorative iron hanging sign. The west side features a prominent central gable with a large canted bay, which includes a 12-pane window flanked by narrow 4-pane outer lights. The bays on either side of the central bay also have smaller gables; the left bay includes an entrance with stone quoins, while the right bay has an arched window similar to the others.
The right wing has a voluted Dutch gable and large lattice-glazed doors that open onto a corbelled first-floor balcony with iron railings. Above the balcony is a trompe l'oeil oval oculus in the gable apex. The ground floor features a canted bay with a 20-pane front window and 8-pane side windows, along with another decorative iron hanging sign to the left. The inner side of this wing has a single-storey shop that extends into the angle with the central range, featuring a shallow canted front and small-pane glazing throughout. The east side of this block has an external rick stair providing access to a first-floor entrance.
Local climate
Salutation 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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