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
17546
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
05/11/1996  
Date of Amendment
05/11/1996  
Name of Property
Caersws bridge  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Caersws  
Town
 
Locality
Caersws  
Easting
303237  
Northing
291720  
Street Side
 
Location
The bridge carries the A.489 Newtown to Machynlleth Road over the River Severn immediately at the S end of the village.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
The present bridge was built for the First District Turnpike by Thomas Penson, the Montgomeryshire Turnpike and County Roads Surveyor, in c.1821 to replace an earlier 2-arch stone bridge, then found to be in poor condition.  

Exterior
Built of local stone, of three unequal elliptical arches, with one ring of V-jointed voussoirs set slightly forward, with central keystone, set on 2 water piers with pointed cutwaters upstream. Square string course following the cambered carriageway, and 3-course parapets with through stones projecting and rock-faced each side, with flush copings, possibly of later date when the breakwaters on the upstream side were added, ?1843. The outer ends of the bridge are splayed to terminal piers. Fourteen tie bars with ribbed iron terminal plates added to strengthen the bridge later. Penstrowed stone breakwaters were added in the river bed later.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved major county bridge by the eminent surveyor Thomas Penson, and a good and well detailed example of a masonry bridge.  

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