Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Date of Designation
08/02/1999
Date of Amendment
08/02/1999
Name of Property
Pont-y-pandy and causeway
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Location
The bridge carries the minor road from Pentreuchaf to the W, over the Afon Llannor by a long curved causeway.
History
Probably built in the early-mid C19 at the time of general improvements to the roads within the county.
Exterior
The bridge is built of local rubble stone. A segmental arch formed with flush voussoirs between twice offset buttresses, with a horizontal string course between the heads of the top offset. The span is c3.5m, the arch rising c1.9m and the carriageway is 4m wide between the 1.2m high parapets, each 30cm thick, and which are rendered on the inner (road) side, and continue as parapets to the causeway each side.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual bridge, part of a long curved causeway across the valley and marshland associated with the river.
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