Penrhyn Park Boundary Wall (partly in Llanllechid community) is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 May 2000. Boundary wall.
Penrhyn Park Boundary Wall (partly in Llanllechid community)
- WRENN ID
- guardian-frieze-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 May 2000
- Type
- Boundary wall
- Address
- Penrhyn Park Boundary Wall (partly in Llanllechid community), Llandygai
- OS grid reference
- SH 595 726
- Coordinates
- 53.23236, -4.10612
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Penrhyn Park Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed structure that encloses a roughly circular park. It is constructed from roughly coursed rubblestone, featuring two distinct bands sourced from the Cochwillan and other quarries, with a coping made of irregular Penrhyn Quarry slate slabs set on edge. The wall stretches approximately 11 kilometers in length and reaches a height of up to 4 meters at its tallest points.
On the west side, the wall extends from the Grand Lodge entrance along the main A 5122 road, passing Home Farm towards Bangor. It veers away from the road near the municipal cemetery, continuing north-east along the park boundary towards Port Lodge and Porth Penrhyn, which it skirts to the east before meeting the sea. To the east of Grand Lodge, the wall follows the driveway to the castle, with the estate village of Llanygai located immediately to its south. It connects to the road between the village and Tal-y-bont just west of the bridge over the Afon Ogwen.
East of the river, the wall enters the Llanllechid community, running past the lodge at the south-east entrance to the park. It crosses the Chester-Holyhead railway and continues north-east to join the minor road to Aber-Ogwen, passing on the west side of the road and meeting the sea again just west of the river. At this point, the wall returns to the Llandygai community, where it transforms into a sea retaining wall.
Local climate
Penrhyn Park Boundary Wall (partly in Llanllechid community) 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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