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
22178
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
27/08/1999  
Date of Amendment
27/08/1999  
Name of Property
Pont-y-wern  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire  
Community
Llanfihangel Aberbythych  
Town
Carmarthen  
Locality
Golden Grove Park  
Easting
260297  
Northing
219893  
Street Side
 
Location
In park landscape about 500m to the east of Golden Grove, carrying the private drive from the East (Llandeilo) Lodge to the Mansion. It crosses a small stream in a deep narrow valley.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
Ornamental bridge on the former principal approach drive through Golden Grove Park. The architect's drawing for this bridge (received from London, and so very probably from the office of Wyatville) is in the Cawdor Papers, in a bundle of c1831 date. It was perhaps built during the construction of the house to facilitate bringing materials from the direction of Llandeilo. The bridge appears on the 1839 Tithe Plan. The architect's instructions left it to the mason to decide whether the outer lengths of the parapets were to be plain or formed with balustrades.  

Exterior
A fine single-arch estate bridge in limestone. 12m span, carrying a road about 5m in width. Deep segmental arch. Thin voussoirs nearly ½m in depth; thin keystone. Two shallow buttresses each side carried up to form piers in the parapets. The parapets are in ashlar masonry, each in three lengths articulated by little piers; the central length each side incorporates three sets of balusters. The parapet has a weathering at foot and the top course is chamfered with a slight weathering to the exterior.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
A fine estate bridge contemporary with Golden Grove mansion.  

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