Walls to inner and outer gardens on E side of Vaynol Old Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 September 1997. Garden walls.
Walls to inner and outer gardens on E side of Vaynol Old Hall
- WRENN ID
- open-ledge-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 September 1997
- Type
- Garden walls
- Address
- Walls to inner and outer gardens on E side of Vaynol Old Hall, Vaynol Park, Bangor, Pentir
- OS grid reference
- SH 538 695
- Coordinates
- 53.20274, -4.18964
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The walls to the inner and outer gardens on the east side of Vaynol Old Hall are notable features of the property. The inner garden is rectangular and set below ground level, matching the height of the service basement of the Old Hall. Access from the north is via five steps leading down, accompanied by a hedge and a revetment wall. This wall is approximately 4 meters high to the south and between 2 to 5 meters high to the east, featuring a central voussoired archway. In the center of the inner garden, opposite the service door, there is an oval pool that is flush with the surrounding garden and includes a fountain at its center, designed as a lobed bowl on cross supports.
To the east, the outer garden is enclosed by roughly coursed rubble walls that stand about 4 meters high and are battered on the outside. The outer corners of these walls are rounded, and there is a cart entrance at the south end of the east side, flanked by plain capped gate piers. The entrance features later boarded gates. Additionally, a lean-to shelter extends across the garden on the southern side.
Local climate
Walls to inner and outer gardens on E side of Vaynol Old Hall 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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