Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden Wall of Pen-y-mynde
Caerleon, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 18 January 2002
- Locality
- Caerleon
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Caerleon
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61070, -2.95093
- Cadw reference
- 26116
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
About 300m east of the Church of St.Cadoc to the north of Castle Mound.
History
This wall is a part of the wall constructed round The Mynde (now No 14 High Street) in 1839. The owner of the house and of Ponthir Plate Works, John Jenkins, was frightened by the possibility of violence and destruction of property by the Chartist Movement and built the wall right round his property to protect it. It is now in six different ownerships, but continues to be visually very important to Caerleon. Its fortress like appearance pays respect to the Castle Mound a large Norman motte within the enclosure.
Exterior
Coursed squared local red sandstone and conglomerate rubble wall rising from 5 to 6m in height. It is castellated as it goes along Mill Street and at the corner with Castle Lane has a square turret about 7m in height. It is about 50m long to each street. Interior face not seen.
Reason for designation
Included as a fine wall built in 1839 with historic associations and group value with the surrounding buildings in the centre of Caerleon.
Nearby in the register
- Garden Wall of Pen-y-myndeDomesticunder 1 mi
- 96 Mill StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 98 Mill StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden Wall of Castle AcreDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.