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Latitude: 51.6092 / 51°36'32"N
Longitude: -2.9513 / 2°57'4"W
OS Eastings: 334222
OS Northings: 190465
OS Grid: ST342904
Mapcode National: GBR J7.9Y2Y
Mapcode Global: VH7B6.STN9
Plus Code: 9C3VJ25X+MF
Entry Name: Garden Wall of The Mynde
Listing Date: 1 August 1974
Last Amended: 18 January 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 2947
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300002947
Location: On the north east side of Castle Street at the southern 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 battlemented wall rising from 4 to 5m in height. It is about 80m long and includes in the centre a rock faced white limestone postern gate projecting slightly forward from the main line of the wall and also rising above it. This incorporates a plank door in a 4-centred archway. 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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