Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


Reference Number
81194
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
17/12/1998  
Date of Amendment
16/06/2003  
Name of Property
Pont Sticill (also known as Pontsticill Bridge)  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil  
Community
Vaynor  
Town
Merthyr Tydfil  
Locality
Pontsticill  
Easting
305948  
Northing
211456  
Street Side
 
Location
NE of Pontsticill village and adjacent to the Water Treatment Works below Pontsticill Reservoir.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
The bridge which gave name to the village. Datestone 1825 inscribed DI; one of a number of such bridges on the mountain road and pass between Pontsticill and Talybont probably resulting from road improvements associated with the development of the Brecknock and Abergavenny canal. This bridge carried the main road across the Taf Fechan river.  

Exterior
Single span river bridge with a slightly asymmetrical segmental arch. Built of stone rubble with dressed stone voussoirs and keystone, low parapet with flat coping defined by a string course on the outer face, splayed approaches and abutments, tiered to SW. Some unsympathetic rebuilding of N parapet and repointing.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as an early C19 bridge, one of a group on this route.  

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