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
30
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/07/1962
Date of Amendment
06/05/1998
Name of Property
Pack Horse Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Hope
Town
Locality
Caergwrle
Easting
330613
Northing
357610
Street Side
Location
Spanning the River Alyn in the centre of Caergwrle village, at the end of Fellows Lane.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Vernacular packhorse bridge of probable medieval origin (given this river crossing's proximity to Caergwrle Castle), though extended and altered in the C17 and later.
Exterior
Narrow packhorse bridge approximately 50m long; of sandstone and freestone rubble with low parapets (C18 or C19 replacements) with curved sandstone capping stones. The bridge spans the river in two places with an irregular central island. There are four crude segmental arches in all with three sets of surviving triangular cutwaters, two retaining parapetted refuges. A plain late C19 gate on the upstream side gives access to the island; irregular masonry to the lower bridge walls in this section.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed Grade II* as a fine and unusually long sub-medieval packhorse bridge with probable medieval origins.
Scheduled Ancient Monument FL133.
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