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
9380
Building Number
 
Grade
II*  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
08/07/1966  
Date of Amendment
13/09/2002  
Name of Property
Pont Cothi (partly in Llanfynydd Community)  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire  
Community
Llanfihangel Rhos-y-Corn  
Town
 
Locality
Abergorlech  
Easting
258475  
Northing
233585  
Street Side
 
Location
Spanning the Afon Cothi in the centre of the village and carrying a minor road immediately S of its junction with the B4310.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
A wooden bridge over the Cothi at Abergorlech is mentioned in 1675, the present bridge therefore being later. It was repaired in 1794 by John Jones (details on parapet), which probably refers to the construction of the segmental arch to the L bank.  

Exterior
A single-carriageway 3-bay bridge of rubble stone. The central piers have full-height V-shaped cutwaters rising to the parapet as refuges. The centre and R-hand (N) arches are pointed with narrow voussoirs, of which the R-hand is partly distorted. The later L-hand arch is segmental with dressed voussoirs. All arches have drip moulds. The parapet has a simple coping course. On the downstream side one refuge has a small stone tablet inscribed 'this bridge was mended by John Jones 1794'. On the R (N) bank the approach and parapet curve outwards on the upstream side, while on the downstream side they are continuous with a sinuous roadside wall. The L (S) bank has a splayed stone abutment.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed grade II* as an especially fine and well-preserved sub-medieval road bridge.  

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