Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Boundary wall in front of 5 Castle Street
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 March 1983
- Locality
- Walled town
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.14034, -4.27673
- Cadw reference
- 3846
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 S side of the house.
History
5 Castle Street was built in the early C19 by Richard Garnons, a prominent local landowner. It was described as 'a large new house' in 1809. The boundary wall is an integral feature of the house shown on the 1834 town plan and originally enclosed a forecourt. It now forms the boundary of a courtyard in front of council offices.
Exterior
A fragment only of the original forecourt wall has survived, abutting the L side of the front of the house and facing Castle Street. It is of coursed rubble stone with a saddleback coping, renewed with render and tile. It has a round-headed doorway, the inner side of which is a flat stone arch. The wall continues as a dwarf wall, with a return enclosing the forecourt of the present council offices on the site.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with 5 Castle Square.
Nearby in the register
- Cofeb Llywelyn at Pencadlys GwyneddCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- 10-12 Castle StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 5 Castle StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Education Offices at Pencadlys GwyneddCivilunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.