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
19342
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/02/1998
Date of Amendment
17/02/1998
Name of Property
Pont-yr-Alwen
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Cerrigydrudion
Town
Cerrigydrudion
Locality
Pentre-llyn-cymmer
Easting
296392
Northing
352303
Street Side
Location
The bridge is located on a bend of the old road from Cerrigydrudion to Llyn Brenig and Denbigh, at the crossing of the Afon Brenig.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Built in the C18, possibly to a design by Thomas Penson the elder, and repaired under contract dated 1st May 1799.
Exterior
Built of local stone rubble. A single segmental arch with rubble voussoirs without a pronounced keystone, and a projecting regulating course, the ends sharply curving round to end piers. The parapet is undifferentiated from the spandrels, and has a C20 weathered concrete capping with painted steel railings. Six iron tie bars through the spandrels terminate in rectangular plates.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a fine example of a medium sized later C18 country bridge, probably replacing a ford.
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