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
23712
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/07/2000
Date of Amendment
21/07/2000
Name of Property
Pont Factory
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanllyfni
Town
Locality
Llanllyfni
Easting
247129
Northing
352485
Street Side
Location
Road bridge and causeway on the A 487, spanning the Afon Lyni, between Llanllyfni and Penygroes.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Shown on the 1840 Tithe Map, the bridge forms part of the establishment of the turnpike road by the improving landlords of the Bryncir Estate in the 1820s.
Exterior
Roughly coursed rubblestone with saddleback coping to long abutments forming a raised causeway to north and south. The bridge itself is of regularly coursed blocks with piers, coped parapet and string course above a single-span segmental arch over the river, faced with rough-dressed voussoirs and keystone below a plain arch ring.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a very fine early C19 bridge on the former turnpike road.
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
Export