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
21873
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/06/1999
Date of Amendment
17/06/1999
Name of Property
Pont Traws-afon
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Cyffylliog
Town
Locality
Pont Traws-afon
Easting
302690
Northing
354645
Street Side
Location
Located towards the south-western boundary of the community within the Clocaenog forest; spanning the Nant Nilig some 200m SE of Nilig and carrying the main forest road.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Early clapper bridge carrying the main E-W road through the forest; probably of C18 date in its present form, though perhaps with earlier origins.
Exterior
Two-span clapper bridge of rubble construction, with an irregular rubble platform projecting on the eastern downstream side. Central rubble piers to both sides, that to the upstream side with an irregular rubble cutwater. Flat carriageway with gently-curving parapets; boulder copings.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a vernacular clapper bridge of probable C17 or C18 origin.
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