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
26938
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/09/2002
Date of Amendment
13/09/2002
Name of Property
Pont Cwmmawr-du
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanfihangel Rhos-y-Corn
Town
Locality
Gwernogle
Easting
253461
Northing
232741
Street Side
Location
Approximately 1.4km SSE of Gwernogle, spanning the Afon Clydach and carrying a minor road between Gwernogle and Brechfa.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Dated 1838 and built by T.H. Jones of Neuadd Fawr. The bridge is shown on the 1844 Tithe map.
Exterior
A single-carriageway, single-span bridge of rubble stone. A segmental arch, slightly recessed from the abutments, has narrow freestone voussoirs. The simple parapet has a saddleback coping replaced in concrete. A stone tablet on the upstream parapet is engraved 'This bridge built by the expence of T.H. Jones Esq Neuadd Fawr AD 1838'. The parapets are splayed out at the ends, on corbelled stonework to the L (E) bank on the upstream side. On the R (W) bank the abutment curves out on the upstream side, while on the L bank the abutment curves out on the downstream side.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-detailed and well-preserved early C19 road bridge.
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