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
83174
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/10/2004
Date of Amendment
15/10/2004
Name of Property
Gelli Bridge (partly in Llawhaden community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
New Moat
Town
Clarbeston Road
Locality
Gelli
Easting
208369
Northing
219516
Street Side
Location
Across the Avon Syfynwy, a tributary of the Eastern Cleddau, which is the community boundary between Llawhaden and New Moat.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
A bridge of unknown date, possibly C18 as the arches have projecting keystones. It was probably adopted as a County bridge and reconstructed in the early C19; however, no contract survives in the records. Substantial causeways have been built up at each end, as in many local bridges at the latter date. In the course of this improvement it appears a third small arch at the W of the main arch may have been lost.
Exterior
A rubble masonry bridge of one large arch and one small arch, both semicircular, with spans of about 7 and 4 m respectively. Keystones to each side of each arch. The single bridge pier has a cutwater on the upstream side, but the pedestrian refuge above it has been filled. On the downstream side there is a large remedial buttress. Between the parapets the bridge carriageway is 2.4 m wide, with wider approaches each end. The parapets continue out alongside the approach roads at each end for some distance, especially the upstream parapet on the right bank which blends with the retaining wall of the river channel.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as a probably C18 bridge, retaining the vernacular character of its early C19 restoration.
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