Section of boundry walls around Castle grounds running SW.from outer Gatehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. Wall.

Section of boundry walls around Castle grounds running SW.from outer Gatehouse

WRENN ID
little-pedestal-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
25 September 1986
Type
Wall
Address
Section of boundry walls around Castle grounds running SW.from outer Gatehouse, Laugharne Township
OS grid reference
SN 301 107
Coordinates
51.76982, -4.46281
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This section of boundary walls surrounds the castle grounds and runs southwest and east from the outer gatehouse on Market Street. The wall is made of rubble and extends southwest from the outer gatehouse, acting as a revetment wall for the elevated outer ward, with Wogan Street below. Part of the wall is crenellated. There is a right-angle turn to the southeast above Island House, where a ruined garden wall from the 18th century is located, which incorporates the late 13th-century curtain wall adjoining the southwest castle tower at the southeast end.

Another section of the wall runs east from the outer gatehouse. The western end is made of rubble, while the majority is constructed of late 18th-century to early 19th-century Flemish bond brickwork, built against an earlier rubble wall on the north side.

There are arched openings, one featuring classical detailing, that lead to the Castle House garden. On the north side, there are slate-roofed rubble lean-tos. A rubble wall with some ruined crenellations runs at right angles along the cliff edge towards a gazebo and extends down to the foreshore.

Local climate

Section of boundry walls around Castle grounds running SW.from outer Gatehouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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