Retaining wall with small jetty in Menai Strait is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Anglesey local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 January 1968. Hall.

Retaining wall with small jetty in Menai Strait

WRENN ID
stubborn-rood-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Constituency
Ynys Môn MP: Llinos Medi (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 January 1968
Type
Hall
Address
Retaining wall with small jetty in Menai Strait, Plas Newydd Estate, Llanddaniel Fab
OS grid reference
SH 521 695
Coordinates
53.20249, -4.2151
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The retaining wall with a small jetty in the Menai Strait is a Grade II listed structure. It features a sea wall and terrace that includes three semicircular bastions, with the central bastion supporting a flagpole. The walls are made of roughly coursed and squared masonry topped with flat slab coping and a plain stone band on the seaward side. Between the bastions, there are two rectangular projections that have Gothick arches below, which open onto the Menai Strait.

To the south, there is a covered dock or plunge bath with a brick arch ceiling, accessible via stone steps and a brick tunnel-vaulted passage. To the north, a narrow jetty projects into the Menai Strait, although part of it has been washed away. This jetty is reached through a subterranean room that has a Gothick arch flanked by two Gothick windows, one of which is blind. The room features a two-bay cross vault made of brick and has a stone bench along the rear wall, along with a fireplace that has a massive squared stone lintel.

At the southern end of the sea wall, there is a curving harbour wall and slipway, which includes a later parapet and a battlemented bastion set behind it. At the northern end of the harbour, a concrete swimming pool from the 1950s likely incorporates some of the original harbour wall, alongside a small stone building.

Local climate

Retaining wall with small jetty in Menai Strait 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 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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