Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
19/06/1990
Date of Amendment
26/05/1995
Name of Property
Pont Gwanas (partly in Dolgellau Community)
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Brithdir and Llanfachreth
Location
Spanning the Afon Clywedog immediately N of the new road bridge on the course of the former road.
Exterior
Twin-arched road bridge of rubble. C18 or earlier; repairs were recorded in 1830. Segmental arches separated by triangular full-height cutwater on upstream side. Slight camber to parapet following the rise of the road. The rubble parapets plays out to the N on the upstream side where it has recently been extensively repaired. On the S side, the bridge parapet continues for some 4m towards the new road where it adjoins a modern rubble dwarf wall to curve around flanking the new road to the W. On the downstream side, the S bridge parapet terminates at the junction with a section of C19 wall which steps up. Adjoining wall and gatepiers form entrance to Caerynwch.
Reason for designation
An early twin-arched road bridge retaining its character.
(Also listed in Dolgellau community resurvey, reference no:44/A/220(2)).
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