Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
30/07/2002
Date of Amendment
30/07/2002
Name of Property
Pont Llanychan
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Location
Carrying the Llanychan to Llanynys road over the River Clwyd, about 200m south of St Hychan's church.
History
A late vernacular stone bridge, probably a County bridge of c1800.
Exterior
A bridge consisting of a single low segmental span of about 12m in local limestone. Voussoirs narrow, about 0.6m deep; thin corbelled course on extrados; main masonry axe-dressed and informally coursed. Similar parapet above a thin string course. The bridge sides and parapets turn out at all 4corners. Carriageway about 5m wide. Side parapets about 0.8m high with flat copings linked by pairs of iron cramps.
Reason for designation
A fine utilitarian minor road bridge of the late C18 or early C19, which has retained its character.
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