Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
15438
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/12/1994
Date of Amendment
29/12/1994
Name of Property
Wern Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Guilsfield
Town
Locality
Wern
Easting
325271
Northing
313625
Street Side
Location
Canal bridge No. 107 over the Montgomeryshire Canal.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
c.1820-33, G Buck, Engineer.
Exterior
Stone coping brick abutments with later blue engineering brick chamfered vertical corners. Applied iron strips to protect corners on towpath. Bridge of five fish-bellied cast iron 'T'-joists with 170x40mm bottom flange, depth 210-280mm, the outer joist cast with pockets for timber guard rail, all bearing on stone padstones. Roadway carried on probably original 70mm x 305mm hardwood planks spanning between beams. No numbered identity plate. Canal revetted with concrete.
The course of the canal between Red Bridge and Wern Bridge is raised on a high embankment, the borrow pits along the canal having later been used for growing osiers, and as a source of puddling clay during the construction of the canal, and from 1824 as a source for brick earth
Interior
Reason for designation
One of a number of ironwork structures added during engineering improvements to the canal in early C19.
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