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
19218
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/01/1998
Date of Amendment
09/01/1998
Name of Property
Pont Ruffydd (partly in Bodfari Community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Trefnant
Town
Denbigh
Locality
Pont Ruffydd
Easting
307933
Northing
369613
Street Side
Location
Spanning the River Clwyd at the SE boundary of the community; partly in Bodfari community area.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
A bridge at this crossing point was described as being ''in very great decay'' in 1720. In 1784 a new bridge was contracted and was constructed to plans by the county architect and surveyor, Joseph Turner. Major repairs to this were carried out in 1821, the work being awarded to one Hugh Dayhurst of ''Llanrhaeadr'', stone mason, for the sum of £50. Stylistically the bridge can be linked to the Pont-yr-allt-Goch which is probably also by Turner.
Exterior
Single-span road bridge of rubble construction. Wide segmental arch with rusticated soffit of red sandstone, the chamfered rustication continued onto the bridge faces as projecting voussoirs; plain stringcourse above. Gently-humped carriageway with splayed approaches terminating in rectangular piers with shallow pyramidal capping. Parapets with sandstone capping, the eastern downstream section renewed and with modern concrete copings. The parapet has a central projecting section to the inner face on both sides. There is a later stone stile and a rubble-parapetted flight of stone steps to the eastern downstream side.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as an C18 road bridge attributable to the county surveyor, Joseph Turner.
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