Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
15647
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/03/1981
Date of Amendment
24/01/1995
Name of Property
Buttington Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Trewern
Town
Locality
Buttington
Easting
324659
Northing
308911
Street Side
Location
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The main road bridge across the River Severn, partly in the Community Area of Welshpool.
Exterior
Single-span bridge built in 1872, by W.N.Swettenham, County Surveyor for Montgomeryshire. Five elliptical iron arches reinforced with later steel framing, springing from rusticated stone abutments, and having a cast iron parapet consisting of zig-zag line with bold trefoil decoration, cast in two halves in sections approximately 1.6m long. The abutments have very shallow elliptical land arches of yellow stone with red sandstone quoin decoration and keystones, and rise to small refuges at road level. The bridge is approached by causeways of rusticated stone on both sides.
Interior
Reason for designation
An interesting late use of cast iron in prefabricated sections to provide a worthy major river bridge.
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