Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
26114
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/01/2002
Date of Amendment
18/01/2002
Name of Property
Garden Wall of Castle Acre
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Caerleon
Town
Newport
Locality
Caerleon
Easting
334225
Northing
190593
Street Side
NW
Location
On the north east side of Castle Street at the northern end.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
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 4 to 5m in height. It is partly castellated as it approaches Nos. 96 and 98 Mill Street (qv), and the castellations may have been removed from the rest. It is about 110m long and includes a concave section and then it goes round the back of Nos 96 and 98 Mill Street and finishes with a square turret about 7m in height. Interior face not seen.
Interior
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.
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