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Latitude: 51.6103 / 51°36'37"N
Longitude: -2.9513 / 2°57'4"W
OS Eastings: 334225
OS Northings: 190593
OS Grid: ST342905
Mapcode National: GBR J7.9QD0
Mapcode Global: VH7B6.SSND
Plus Code: 9C3VJ26X+4F
Entry Name: Garden Wall of Castle Acre
Listing Date: 18 January 2002
Last Amended: 18 January 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 26114
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300026114
Location: On the north east side of Castle Street at the northern end.
County: Newport
Town: Newport
Community: Caerleon (Caerllion)
Community: Caerleon
Built-Up Area: Caerleon
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: Wall
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.
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.
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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