Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
14203
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/04/1993
Date of Amendment
05/04/1993
Name of Property
Four-Arch Aqueduct over Vyrnwy Flood Plain (Northern Arches) New Bridge Vyrnwy
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Carreghofa
Town
Locality
Easting
325319
Northing
319973
Street Side
Location
Sited between Carreghofa Locks and B4398 road which crosses the Montgomeryshire Canal at Williams Bridge.
Description
Broad Class
Water Supply and Drainage
Period
History
Designed by John Dadford, canal engineer of Cardiff, between 1794-6, partly rebuilt by Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company about 1890 with metal tie-rods and brick arch-linings.
Exterior
Squared stone cappings and quoins, rubble facings, four round (rebuilt) blue brick arches with arch rings meeting (on both sides) at low, stepped cutwaters with pryamidal tops. Outer ends checked forward with curved abutments sloping down to low brick piers. Paired oval brace-plates to haunches of each arch.
Interior
Reason for designation
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