Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
16151
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/07/1995
Date of Amendment
20/07/1995
Name of Property
Pont Wnin
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanelltyd
Town
Locality
Llanelltyd
Easting
271444
Northing
319462
Street Side
Location
Spanning the Afon Wnin on a bend in the centre of Llanelltyd village and formerly the main road bridge; immediately N of the present, modern road bridge.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Exterior
Mid-late C18 single-span road bridge of rough-dressed stone; depressed arch with chamfered arch-ring and dressed voussoirs. Plain, continuous stringcourse continued over flat buttresses on both sides. The S parapet has three such buttresses, two flanking the arch and a further one to the W where the parapet bows slightly southwards where the bridge terminates. The N parapet has 2 buttresses flanking the bridge arch and terminating the parapet walls which curve northwards, following the course of the river. The NE parapet wall is continued for a further 10m along the riverbank in a later stretch of stone-coped rubble walling. There is a benchmark on the inner face of the S parapet.
Interior
Reason for designation
An unusually angled C18 bridge in a central village location.
Group value with other listed items in Llanelltyd village.
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