Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
18059
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/12/1996
Date of Amendment
20/12/1996
Name of Property
Pickhill Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Sesswick
Town
Locality
Pickhill
Easting
339636
Northing
348220
Street Side
Location
Pickhill Bridge crosses the River Dee and carries the B5130. The bridge is on the border of Sesswick and Bangor-is-y-Coed Communities lying amongst open farmland on all sides. Pickhill Bridge Farm lies to the west.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Records held in the Clwyd County Record Office at Ruthin indicate works carried out on bridges at Pickhill, Sesswick, Bangor, and Bedwell between 1707 and 1818. The current bridge would appear to be late C18/early C19 and all of single construction date, possibly by Thomas Telford who was County Surveyor to Shropshire from 1788. There are said to be the remains of a water mill to the north of the bridge in Mill Wood.
Exterior
Large single-span finely dressed stone road bridge to a symmetrical design with wide copings. Probably late C18/early C19. Parapets splayed at either end in the manner of Telford's canal bridges.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a single-span late C18/early C19 stone bridge.
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