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
1741
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/02/1992
Date of Amendment
15/03/1994
Name of Property
Barton's Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Overton
Town
Locality
Knolton
Easting
335407
Northing
340265
Street Side
Location
Carries the B5069 across the Shell Brook which forms the border between Wales and England and the counties of Clwyd and Shropshire. On a bend in the road, approximately 4km SW of Overton.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Said to have been built in 1819 by Thomas Telford, then County Surveyor for Shropshire - a datestone is referred to by Blackwall, but is no longer visible.
Exterior
Coursed and dressed sandstone bridge with single, round-headed arch and rusticated voussoirs flanked by distinctively tall and battered abutments that are stepped to the top; string course above. Railings removed to slightly undulating coped parapets which terminate in trapezoidal piers; parapet to downstream side curves out at both ends.
Interior
Reason for designation
A good example of a small stone arched bridge.
Also listed of a small stone arched bridge.
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