Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
24383
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/11/2000
Date of Amendment
14/11/2000
Name of Property
Road bridge over Cwm Trafle SE of Tycwtta Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanwrthwl
Town
Locality
Cwm Trafle
Easting
300878
Northing
260384
Street Side
Location
On a minor road between Llysdinam and Tycwtta Farm approximately 0.5km SE of Tycwtta Farm.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Built in 1839 by Thomas Price of Llangammarch, for the country estate of James Watt of Soho, Birmingham, the son of the famous inventor (the details are recorded on a tablet on the parapet). One of 3 surviving estate bridges built by Price in 1839.
Exterior
A single-carriageway bridge of coursed rubble stone. A single segmental arch with hammer-dressed voussoirs and keystone is set back from the main face of the bridge behind hammer-dressed quoins. Above the arch, at the base of the parapet, is a thin dressed stone band. The parapet is stepped in, curves out at the ends to simple square terminal piers, and has flat stone copings. On the upstream side of the parapet is a stone tablet recording the building of the bridge.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a good though simple early C19 road bridge and as one of a series of 3 estate bridges built across Cwm Trafle.
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