Latitude: 51.4371 / 51°26'13"N
Longitude: -3.2199 / 3°13'11"W
OS Eastings: 315299
OS Northings: 171601
OS Grid: ST152716
Mapcode National: GBR HW.NNST
Mapcode Global: VH6FL.44LP
Plus Code: 9C3RCQPJ+R2
Entry Name: Remains of Dinas Powis Castle
Listing Date: 28 January 1963
Last Amended: 3 May 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 13624
Building Class: Defence
Also known as: Dinas Powis Castle
ID on this website: 300013624
Location: On a wooded spur in Castle Wood, immediately above the C20 development of Lettons Way and reached by footpath from there.
County: Vale of Glamorgan
Town: Cardiff
Community: Dinas Powys
Community: Dinas Powys
Locality: Dinas Powis
Built-Up Area: Dinas Powis
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Castle Architectural structure
Masonry castle which replaced the ring work on the hill top to the NW and was the fortified headquarters of the Somery family in the C12. The castle continued in use throughout the C13 and there is evidence of some alterations and additions.
The remains of the castle stand at the NW end of a long narrow ridge which runs NW-SE. The ridge is steep sided on all sides except the SE and is covered in trees and scrub. The remains consist of an enclosure 65m x 53m surrounded by curtain walling, and the stump of a tower.
The curtain wall encloses a roughly rectangular area on top of the ridge. The interior is cleared and is 1.5m thick, is roughly coursed. Only in the SE corner are any of the window and door dressings left.
Listed as an ancient castle site with substantial medieval masonry.
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