Boundary Wall to Vaynol Park, including railings along the Menai Strait shore. is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 August 1992. Boundary wall.

Boundary Wall to Vaynol Park, including railings along the Menai Strait shore.

WRENN ID
shadowed-tower-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 August 1992
Type
Boundary wall
Address
Boundary Wall to Vaynol Park, including railings along the Menai Strait shore., Bangor, Pentir
OS grid reference
SH 541 687
Coordinates
53.19579, -4.18519
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The boundary wall to Vaynol Park, which includes railings along the Menai Strait shore, is constructed from local snecked and rock-faced stone rubble, topped with finely set Dinorwic slate copings that project jaggedly on both sides. It starts at the northern end near the road junction of the A487 and A5, southeast of the Britannia Bridge, and runs downhill to the south past the entrances to Vaynol Farm drive and Capel-y-Graig Lodge, extending to the roundabout junction of the A487 and A4087. The wall then turns southwest, passing the main drive entrance in front of the Grand Lodge, and continues in a distinctive crinkle-crankle manner to the junction with the B4547, where it steps back behind Nant Cottage due to the owner's refusal to sell the land. Beyond this point, the wall borders a narrow winding road until it reaches the entrance gate piers to the lane leading to Caerefail (Aberpwll), which face into Felinheli at right angles. The wall then turns inward, crossing and following the course of the Nant-y-garth, and passes the tall gate piers at Bryntirion lodge. It meets the Menai Strait shore at the harbour at Port Dinorwic. From there, a lower boundary wall runs north along the shoreline, including a section near Vaynol Dock and Boathouse, featuring iron railings on a stone plinth. This wall spans the mouth of a short canal that once served an earlier lime kiln and passes under the western drive. A railed clair-vue interrupts the wall opposite Bath Cottage.

Local climate

Boundary Wall to Vaynol Park, including railings along the Menai Strait shore. 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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