Launceston Town Walls is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. A Medieval Town walls.
Launceston Town Walls
- WRENN ID
- frozen-lantern-heron
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Town walls
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Launceston Town Walls, Dockacre Road
- OS grid reference
- SX 332 846
- Coordinates
- 50.63739, -4.35887
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Launceston Town Walls are the ruins of town walls, likely dating from the 12th century. They are constructed from local slatestone rubble and feature thick walls, with some sections still standing up to 8 feet high. The visible remains stretch from just northeast of the Southgate to a point next to the walls of St Dominick House.
Local climate
Launceston Town Walls sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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