Portmeirion in North Wales is the unusual Italian style village constructed by the architect Clough William-Ellis around various salvage items he had collected over the years in. Often featuring in the cult 60’s series ‘The Prisoner’.
In 2000-2001 we were asked by the Portmeirion Trust wether we could preserve some of the Victorian plaster ceilings from Castell Deudraeth, at the entranceway to the Italian village, which was being gutted ready for restoration and conversion into a brasserie.
The ceiling in the reception area is what remains. We also undertook the restoration of the octagonal ceiling to he porch area with 4 Gothic alcoves.
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- The entrance to Portmeirion village.
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- Plaster repairs to the ceiling and installtion of new adjustable hanging frame.
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- Lining the hangers up and coating the panels with fibreglass matting and resin.
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- Ling the faces up to match the jigsaw pattern andrepairing the mouldings.
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- Panels hung and adjusted. with new plastered edging created in situ.
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- The finials where reclaimed and where there was further requirement a copy moulding was constructed to make new finials.
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- New alcoves were formed to the entranceway with oak lath.
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- Alcoves plastered and octagonal roofing made good to new doorway.
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- New wooden panelling to the porch complete ready for painting.
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- A single ‘green man’ was recovered from the original porch. We copied this and ‘with a few new distortions’ all 8 corners of the octagonal roof/wall junctions now contain one each.
