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.
Date of Designation
30/07/2002
Date of Amendment
30/07/2002
Name of Property
Pont Llanychan
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Location
Carrying the Llanychan to Llanynys road over the River Clwyd, about 200m south of St Hychan's church.
History
A late vernacular stone bridge, probably a County bridge of c1800.
Exterior
A bridge consisting of a single low segmental span of about 12m in local limestone. Voussoirs narrow, about 0.6m deep; thin corbelled course on extrados; main masonry axe-dressed and informally coursed. Similar parapet above a thin string course. The bridge sides and parapets turn out at all 4corners. Carriageway about 5m wide. Side parapets about 0.8m high with flat copings linked by pairs of iron cramps.
Reason for designation
A fine utilitarian minor road bridge of the late C18 or early C19, which has retained its character.
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