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
19219
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/01/1998
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Pont-yr-allt-Goch (partly in Cefnmeiriadog Community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Trefnant
Town
Denbigh
Locality
Pont-yr-allt-Goch
Easting
303922
Northing
371488
Street Side
Location
Spanning the Afon Elwy at the western boundary of the community.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Road bridge, probably that described by Pennant in 1781 as a 'noble bridge of one lofty arch, eighty-five feet in diameter'. The bridge's similarity with Pont Ruffydd, in its characteristic use of chamfered rustication, suggests that the county architect/surveyor, Joseph Turner, who built the latter in 1784, was responsible. Repairs are recorded in 1821.
Exterior
Impressive single-span road bridge of rubble construction faced with fine ashlar blocks of buff-coloured sandstone. Wide segmental arch with rusticated soffit, the chamfered rustication continued onto the bridge faces as projecting voussoirs. This is of red sandstone and provides a contrast with the buff ashlar of the main work; tripartite projecting keystone. Gently-humped carriageway with splayed approaches terminating in rectangular piers. Reset sandstone ashlar parapet with simply-moulded copings and plain C20 iron railings; moulded stringcourse below. The parapet has a central projecting section above the keystone on both sides and rises slightly to the centre.
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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