Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
21509
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/03/1999
Date of Amendment
23/03/1999
Name of Property
Pont Syr Dafydd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Blackwood
Town
Locality
Rhiw Syr Dafydd
Easting
318087
Northing
198528
Street Side
Location
At the foot of Rhiw Syr Dafydd Hill, an exceptionally steep road crossing the Sirhowy valley and linking Penmaen and Oakdale, with Blackwood and Bedwellty.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Probably C18. The route itself could be much earlier, linking the medieval hilltop communities and churches of Bedwellty and Mynyddislwyn.
Exterior
A single arch slightly hump-backed bridge spanning the Sirhowy River. Of narrow coursed rubble with deep even dressed stone voussoirs with a protruding keystone; only one probably original flat coping stone survives at NE, the rest remoulded in concrete. Splayed approaches, repaired; an offset in NE abutment. The high point of the bridge is not centred over the river arch.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a pre-industrial bridge, one of a few surviving in this area.
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