Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
80934
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/02/2003
Date of Amendment
26/02/2003
Name of Property
Pont Eunant
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanwddyn
Town
Locality
Lake Vyrnwy
Easting
296320
Northing
322400
Street Side
Location
On the south lakeside road 6.9 km from the Vyrnwy Dam.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
One of a series of bridges erected over side streams for the 17-km Lake Vyrnwy perimeter road, c.1890.
Exterior
A tall semicircular bridge above vertical sides, with a span of about 9 metres, spanning a picturesque gorge. The bridge is in rock-faced local slate masonry with voussoirs about 600 mm in height, with a keystone which is slightly projecting but not below the intrados line. The parapet is carried on a corbel table and quarter-round string course, and is in smaller masonry.
The carriageway is about 5 m wide between the parapets, which are narrower than on some of the other bridges and slightly humped, and which terminate in small piers of rock-faced masonry.
Interior
Reason for designation
One of a set of bridges, in various monumental styles and evidently designed by different hands, related to the exploitation of the Reservoir perimeter road for its touristic potential, and closely related to the management of the Reservoir estate.
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