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
16007
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/06/1990
Date of Amendment
26/05/1995
Name of Property
Pont Gwanas (partly in Dolgellau Community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Brithdir and Llanfachreth
Town
Locality
Gwanas
Easting
276834
Northing
316788
Street Side
Location
Spanning the Afon Clywedog immediately N of the new road bridge on the course of the former road.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
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.
Interior
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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