Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
3228
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/05/1954
Date of Amendment
30/05/1996
Name of Property
Pont ar Lledr (Partly in Bro Machno Community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Betws-y-Coed
Town
Locality
Pont ar Lledr
Easting
279662
Northing
354169
Street Side
Location
Carrying the old road from Betws-y-Coed to Penmachno across the Afon Lledr; located at the south-eastern boundary of the community area.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Twin-arched road bridge, late C17 and later, though perhaps earlier in origin; Edward Lhwyd in 1699 mentions the bridge and ascribes it to Howell Saer (fl 1468).
Exterior
Rubble road bridge of two elliptical arches of roughly 11m and 4m in span, the larger arch spanning the river and the smaller being a flood arch.; dressed voussoirs recessed slightly beneath arch-rings of narrow stones. Small triangular rubble cutwaters to the upstream side, that on the SE (Bro Machno) side only surviving in fragment. The roadway and parapets rise to the centre of the larger arch; slab coping to the latter.
Interior
Reason for designation
A twin-arched vernacular bridge of much character and with early origins.
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