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
19522
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/03/1998
Date of Amendment
20/03/1998
Name of Property
Footbridge North West of Leighton Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
Town
Forden
Locality
Leighton Farm
Easting
324053
Northing
305491
Street Side
Location
Located approximately 0.5km SSW of Leighton church and reached across three fields from Leighton Farm. The bridge crosses a small stream.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Early 1850s and carrying a water pipe across a stream. The pipe fed water to a bone mill where ground bone and manure were mixed with water and pumped up to slurry tanks on the hillside to E of Leighton Farm, for redistribution as fertiliser. An integral part of Leighton Farm, the model farm of the Leighton Estate, which was acquired by John Naylor 1846-47. Naylor subsequently embarked on an ambitious programme of building, which included Leighton Farm, which was largely completed in the mid 1850s. He continued to extend and improve the Estate until his death in 1889. His grandson, Captain J.M. Naylor, sold the Estate in 1931, when Leighton Farm was bought by Montgomeryshire County Council.
Exterior
Single-span bridge with a segmental arch and flat deck. Of brick with stone coping, but without parapet.
Interior
Reason for designation
The Leighton Estate is an exceptional example of high-Victorian estate development. It is remarkable for the scale and ambition of its conception and planning, the consistency of its design, the extent of its survival, and is the most complete example of its type in Wales. The bridge NW of Leighton Farm is an integral part of the Estate development and is an important surviving component of the recycling system introduced at Leighton whereby advanced technology was employed in an effort to revolutionise agricultural techniques.
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