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
26811
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/07/2002
Date of Amendment
30/07/2002
Name of Property
Picton Mill Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Cwm Gwaun
Town
Fishguard
Locality
Pontfaen
Easting
202490
Northing
233995
Street Side
Location
Situated some 200m WSW of the Dyffryn Arms inn just S of junction of valley road with road up to Pontfaen church.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Road bridge over the river Gwaun, possibly C18. Presumably a stone bridge in the C16 from whence the name, recorded by George Owen as Pont Vaen in early C17. Recorded as Picton Bridge by Edward Llwyd.
Exterior
Road bridge, rubble stone with 2 low round arches, the arches recessed with stone voussoirs. Cutwater both sides carried up to just below parapet coping. Parapet has edge on stone coping on W and flat coping on E, all much renewed. NE abutment also rebuilt.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a two-arch bridge of well-preserved character, also with landscape value in the Gwaun valley.
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