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
81195
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
17/06/2003  
Date of Amendment
16/06/2003  
Name of Property
Pont-Sarn  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil  
Community
Vaynor  
Town
Merthyr Tydfil  
Locality
Pontsarn  
Easting
304525  
Northing
209747  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated some 150m S of the Pontsarn railway viaduct on a minor road from Pant to Vaynor crossing the Afon Taf Fechan.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
Bridge, built 1864 at a cost of £45. The original wooden bridge was maintained jointly by Vaynor and Merthyr parishes and as a result of their failure to agree it became delapidated and collapsed in June 1864. It is said that part of the costs were met by the Crawshays, major ironmasters in Merthyr. In 1925 and again in 1955 a proposal was made to increase the road width from some 2.7m wide to approximately 6m wide to include a 1m footpath but it met strong opposition and was never proceeded with.  

Exterior
Bridge, rock-faced limestone blocks with single shallow segmental arch and limestone voussiors. Parapets, which return along the SW side of the road, have rock-faced limestone coping repaired in cement in places and reinforced with iron rails on the W side. Roadway is some 2.7m wide.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as a historically interesting bridge of the later C19.  

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