LLANSTEPHAN CASTLE; LLANSTEFFAN CASTLE
Site Details
- NPRN
- 95725
- Map Reference
- SN31SE
- Grid Reference
- SN35131014
- Unitary (Local) Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Old County
- Carmarthenshire
- Community
- Llansteffan
- Type of Site
- CASTLE
- Broad Class
- Defence
- Period
- General
Site Description
Llanstephan Castle was built in the twelfth century with subsequent additions and refortifications until the fifteenth century. The main surviving feature of the mostly ruined small inner ward is the 3-storey square inner gate. Evidence of several domestic buildings survive at foundation level. The spacious outer ward features a 3-storey thirteenth century gatehouse with pair of D-plan flanking towers. There are fragments of tracery to the windows.
(Source CADW listed buildings database)
J Hill, RCAHMW, 04 September 2003
