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
6815
Building Number
Grade
I
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/12/1976
Date of Amendment
04/11/2005
Name of Property
Usk Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Brecon
Town
Brecon
Locality
Easting
304299
Northing
228591
Street Side
W
Location
Spanning River Usk, and linking Bridge Street with Watergate.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
1563, replacing a bridge destroyed by floods about 35 years earlier. Many subsequent alterations for example repaired in 1772, widened in 1794 under supervision of bridge builder Thomas Edwards (son of the great William Edwards), at cost of £1000, repaired in 1801 under supervision of John Mound. Theophilus Jones remarked (1809) that some of the new work had collapsed. Widened in C20 by the addition of a metal framed foot passage to either side.
Exterior
Stone bridge of seven segmental arches with stone parapet.
Interior
Reason for designation
Graded I as fine historic bridge with C16 origins and strong group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Cadw Ref BR004 (POW).
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