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
6788
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/01/1963
Date of Amendment
27/05/2005
Name of Property
Suspension bridge at Abercamlais
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Trallong
Town
Brecon
Locality
Abercamlais
Easting
296622
Northing
229052
Street Side
Location
Situated downstream of Abercamlais Bridge, across the Usk.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Mid-to later C19 iron suspension bridge over the Usk, said to have been built by one of the Baileys of Glanusk, to a remarkable design with minimal ironwork.
Exterior
Suspension bridge, of iron rods with thin flat iron strip for the decking. Two long iron rods each side, bolted to cast-iron posts each end, with thick wire hangers wound around both rods and then continued down to carry flat pieces of iron under the decking. The decking is of four parallel strips of iron.
The cast-iron posts are thin, splayed away from each other and joined at the tops by a hooped piece of iron rod. Each post has four holes, two for the main rods, and two for diagonal outer rods that run parallel into the ground, the upper ends bolted just below each of the main rods.
Iron gate at S end.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as a remarkable piece of Victorian engineering on a minimal scale.
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