Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
122
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/06/1967
Date of Amendment
11/08/1997
Name of Property
Melin-y-Coed Bridge and adjoining revetment walls to E and W.
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Bro Garmon
Town
Locality
Melin-y-Coed
Easting
281452
Northing
360487
Street Side
Location
Spanning the Nant-y-Golon in the centre of the Melin-y-Coed hamlet; carrying the unclassified road running SE from Llanrwst towards Nebo.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Early C19 road bridge with adjoining coped walls, probably contemporary with a further bridge to the E, dated 1822; significantly, the neighbouring Bethel chapel, N of the bridge, was also founded in that year.
Exterior
Single-span road bridge with attendant revetment walls to E and W. Rubble construction with slate-slab coping to parapet walls. The bridge has an irregular rubble platform visible on the upstream N side. Segmental arch with rough-dressed, recessed voussoirs beneath archring. Humped carriageway, the whole some 10m across; splayed approaches to the N end joining onto modern rubble walls on both upstream and downstream sides. On the S side, the downstream parapet wall curves around to continue westwards for a further 15m as a revetment wall between the road and the river. On the Upstream side, the wall similarly curves around to continue eastwards as a long revettment wall for approximately 60m at a height of 80cms; there is a squinch formed in the angle between the wall and the bridge's parapet. The wall terminates at its eastern end in an upward slope where it adjoins a second, contemporary bridge.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as an early C19 vernacular bridge and for group value with the other attached bridge.
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