Gatepiers and Gates, Ticket office, Boundary Walls and Railings at Beaumaris Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Anglesey local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 July 2005. Gatehouse, boundary wall, ticket office.
Gatepiers and Gates, Ticket office, Boundary Walls and Railings at Beaumaris Castle
- WRENN ID
- sunken-thatch-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Constituency
- Ynys Môn MP: Llinos Medi (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 July 2005
- Type
- Gatehouse, boundary wall, ticket office
- OS grid reference
- SH 606 761
- Coordinates
- 53.2642, -4.09054
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The gatepiers and gates, ticket office, boundary walls, and railings at Beaumaris Castle date from the 19th century. The two main gatepiers are octagonal blocks made of coursed ashlar masonry topped with plain cappings. They feature a pair of Regency-Gothic metal gates for the carriage opening, which have cusped Gothic arches beneath the top rails and a quatrefoil frieze above the dog bars, supported by segmental arched braces. Each side of the ticket office has a short section of plain railing with a wicket-gate attached.
The ticket office is a square, single-storey classical lodge with pale dressed ashlar quoins, a plinth band, and window and door surrounds that contrast with the darker rubble facings. It has a pyramidal slate roof with a ball finial and oversailing eaves supported by curved brackets. The outer face features a bull's eye window with raised voussoirs surrounding it and recessed four-part glazing. There is a simple Venetian-style window facing the driveway and a tall arched doorway with a keyblocked design and a traceried fanlight on the inner face. A long horizontal modern opening for the ticket office faces the pedestrian entrance, which includes a single metal gate and a third octagonal ashlar gatepier to the left. This gatepier is connected to a rubble boundary wall that is approximately 2 meters high and runs north to meet a short return section of a brick-lined wall, which separates the screens toilet block from the open grounds at the David Hughes Community Centre. Several old carved stones are set into the brickwork, one of which is dated 1867.
Attached to the south side of the main gatepier is a curving dwarf wall with dressed cappings that supports early 20th-century metal railings with sinuous finials, designed in an Art Nouveau style, flanking the heads of the main uprights. Opposite the drawbridge entrance to the outer ward of the castle, there are two simple stone gatepiers with plain double metal gates. This boundary wall with railings concludes against the eastern dock wall, known as Gunners Walk, to the right of the main gatehouse into the castle.
Local climate
Gatepiers and Gates, Ticket office, Boundary Walls and Railings at Beaumaris Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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