Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
538
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/04/1980
Date of Amendment
05/12/1997
Name of Property
Bridge over River Alyn at Hartsheath
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Leeswood and Pontblyddyn
Town
Locality
Hartsheath
Easting
328427
Northing
360156
Street Side
NE
Location
Spanning the River Alyn on the main drive to Hartsheath Hall, N of the A541 Mold - Wrexham Road.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Built in 1825 to the designs of Charles James Mathews as part of his improvements on the Hartsheath Estate for the Welsh Iron and Coal Mining Company.
Exterior
Shallow segmental arch of dressed stone; both NW and SE faces of the arch with voussoirs, flanking pilasters and keystone inscribed AD 1825. Each parapet made up of 3 delicately worked panels of pierced iron in fishscale motif. Iron work is tenoned into small piers of dressed stone with coupled piers at ends above pilasters and single piers towards centre. NW side of bridge contains separate small culvert which feeds fish ponds and former mill.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Hartsheath Hall.
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