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
3664
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/03/1966
Date of Amendment
24/05/2000
Name of Property
Pont y Twr (partly in Bethesda community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandygai
Town
Locality
Braichmelyn
Easting
262578
Northing
365967
Street Side
W
Location
Spanning the Afon Ogwen a little to the west of the A 5 on the minor road between Braichmelyn and Coed-y-parc; picturesque location.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Road bridge of uncertain date, probably C18, widened 1805, carrying the old road to Llandegai and Bangor across the Ogwen. The bridge is said to have been ruinous in the 1790s and enlarged 1805 though present S side looks of c1830.
Exterior
Rubble stone three-arched bridge doubled in width in early C19. Original N side has low rough stone voussoir arches and rubble parapet. NW end has been splayed perhaps in early C19 giving overhang to right half of centre arch and refacing to right arch. Added earlier C19 S side has 3 shallow elliptical arches with cut slate voussoirs and raised arch rings. String course above. Low cutwaters and raised piers between arches, string course broken forward over piers. Rubble parapet with edge-on stone coping.
Interior
Reason for designation
The oldest of the Ogwen bridges.
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
Export