Battery
Battery (1927, listed Grade II 1971) was designed as
"Block C" on a plan dated March 21st 1927. 
It is of eighteenth century Kentish character with
three storeys, the ground floor stuccoed with one lunette window,
above weatherboarded with wide eaves. It featured in an article on
Portmeirion by E. Maxwell Fry in the Architects' Journal for June
20, 1928. Having mentioned the Watch House he described the Battery
was "a severer house painted all in white [that] looked calmly out
over the waters, as though oblivious to the tower now rising from
its tangle of scaffold poles to eclipse the authority of the first
born." The other cottages completed by this date were Angel and
Neptune down on the village green. Clough justified the name
Battery by having a couple of little cannons placed to guard its
battlemented terrace. These were from Belan Fort, built on the
Menai Straits to repel Napoleon's expected invasion. Battery is a
self-catering cottage sleeping six people with one double, one twin
and two single bedrooms, a kitchen/dining room and sitting room,
two bathrooms and an outside terrace. Chart Room, on the ground
floor directly below the Battery, was once a garage.