Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Victoria Dock walls
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Maritime
- Date of designation
- 3 May 2002
- Locality
- Victoria Dock
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.14350, -4.27721
- Cadw reference
- 26613
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the N side of the walled town.
History
Completed by 1874 and shown in its present form on the 1890 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
Walls of snecked rubble stone with flat copings, around a harbour approximately 200m by 90m. Cast iron mooring posts are spaced at regular intervals. The seaward side has a low parapet, which on the E side of the dock entrance is constructed of monolithic dressed stone blocks, while on the W side is of C20 blockwork but retaining an original square terminal pier at the W end. A cobbled slipway to a landing pier is on the outer NW side.
The dock entrance is rounded on the S side. Both sides of the entrance are recessed where there are stone steps, with an additional lower flight of concrete steps but now concealed behind modern timber stanchions. A modern slipway is in the inner NW corner, beneath which are original stone steps. The landward (SE) side of the harbour has a dry dock.
Reason for designation
Listed as well-preserved C19 dock walls contributing to the historic character of the town.
Nearby in the register
- Drawbridge on S side of Victoria DockMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Crane at Victoria DockMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Arfon OceaneeringCommercialunder 1 mi
- Former warehouse at Victoria DockCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.