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
80920
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/02/2003
Date of Amendment
21/05/2004
Name of Property
Pistyll y Ceunant Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanwddyn
Town
Locality
Lake Vyrnwy
Easting
299429
Northing
320673
Street Side
Location
On the south lakeside road 2.7 km from the Vyrnwy Dam.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
One of a series of bridges erected over side streams for the 17-km Lake Vyrnwy perimeter road, c.1890. Straddles the pool at the foot of Pistyll y Ceunant.
Exterior
A single-arch bridge with a span of about 12 m, faced in sneck-coursed, rock-faced masonry, although the
interior of the arch appears to be in brick. Voussoirs about 0.8 m in height, and a very large rock-faced
keystone projecting slightly below the intrados, but not quite touching the string course. The string
course at the base of the parapet wall and the coping are both chisel-drafted at the margins and rough-hewn.
Carriageway about 5 m wide.
Interior
Reason for designation
One of a set of bridges, in various monumental styles and evidently designed by different hands, related to
the exploitation of the Reservoir perimeter road for its touristic potential, and closely related to the
management of the Reservoir estate.
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