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
14243
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/03/1994
Date of Amendment
02/03/1994
Name of Property
Pont Cych
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Cenarth
Town
Cwm Cych
Locality
Partly in Preseli Pembrokeshire District
Easting
227538
Northing
236168
Street Side
Location
Situated over the River Cych, opposite the Fox and Hounds Inn, carrying the minor road to Llanfyrnach.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Dated 1737 but more proably rebuilt in the early C19.
Exterior
Rubble stone single arch bridge with stone voussoirs to arch rings and projecting flat string course over the arch. Ramped rubble stone parapet and rubble stone abutments each side. Datestone reads 'This bridge rebuilt by both counties. Is Harries, H Howells, overseers. MDCCXXXVII'.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as the best of the series of similar single arch bridges over the Cych, the others being Pont Glancych, an unnamed bridge by Bridgend, Pont Newydd, Pont Wedwst and Pont Cwmorgan.
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