Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
26938
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/09/2002
Date of Amendment
13/09/2002
Name of Property
Pont Cwmmawr-du
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanfihangel Rhos-y-Corn
Town
Locality
Gwernogle
Easting
253461
Northing
232741
Street Side
Location
Approximately 1.4km SSE of Gwernogle, spanning the Afon Clydach and carrying a minor road between Gwernogle and Brechfa.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Dated 1838 and built by T.H. Jones of Neuadd Fawr. The bridge is shown on the 1844 Tithe map.
Exterior
A single-carriageway, single-span bridge of rubble stone. A segmental arch, slightly recessed from the abutments, has narrow freestone voussoirs. The simple parapet has a saddleback coping replaced in concrete. A stone tablet on the upstream parapet is engraved 'This bridge built by the expence of T.H. Jones Esq Neuadd Fawr AD 1838'. The parapets are splayed out at the ends, on corbelled stonework to the L (E) bank on the upstream side. On the R (W) bank the abutment curves out on the upstream side, while on the L bank the abutment curves out on the downstream side.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-detailed and well-preserved early C19 road bridge.
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