Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


Reference Number
14214
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
05/04/1993  
Date of Amendment
05/04/1993  
Name of Property
Road Bridge over Disused Railway cutting in centre of Wern  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Carreghofa  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
325964  
Northing
320677  
Street Side
 
Location
Carries public road from Llanymynech to Newbridge at splayed angle over railway cutting.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
Built 1866-1870 when the cutting of double track width for the Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway was made.  

Exterior
Pink sandstone, rock-faced and snecked stonework, segmental arch with arch ring of five courses of red brick, the under-side of the bridge spanned by diagonal courses of brickwork. Two ramped stone buttresses, impost band and band course at base of parapet, stepped out end piers with dressed pitched coping stones, dressed stone copings to parapet. Adjoins trough of canal aqueduct which was constructed at the same time; the masonry revetment walls to the cutting continue in an unbroken line ending in long raking abutments.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included for grouping with rare ironwork canal aqueduct adjoining.  

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