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
21509
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/03/1999
Date of Amendment
23/03/1999
Name of Property
Pont Syr Dafydd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Blackwood
Town
Locality
Rhiw Syr Dafydd
Easting
318087
Northing
198528
Street Side
Location
At the foot of Rhiw Syr Dafydd Hill, an exceptionally steep road crossing the Sirhowy valley and linking Penmaen and Oakdale, with Blackwood and Bedwellty.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Probably C18. The route itself could be much earlier, linking the medieval hilltop communities and churches of Bedwellty and Mynyddislwyn.
Exterior
A single arch slightly hump-backed bridge spanning the Sirhowy River. Of narrow coursed rubble with deep even dressed stone voussoirs with a protruding keystone; only one probably original flat coping stone survives at NE, the rest remoulded in concrete. Splayed approaches, repaired; an offset in NE abutment. The high point of the bridge is not centred over the river arch.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a pre-industrial bridge, one of a few surviving in this area.
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