Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
81328
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/07/2003
Date of Amendment
23/07/2003
Name of Property
Pwll y Llygoed Tramroad Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Trimsaran
Town
Locality
Pont Newydd
Easting
244612
Northing
206811
Street Side
Location
Spanning the Gwendraeth Fawr river approximately 2.3km NNW of Trimsaran, and immediately N of Maesgwendraeth Farm.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Part of a tramroad that took coal from collieries at Carway to Kymer''''s Canal, which was completed in 1769. The date of the tramroad, and bridge, is not certain. The tramroad is said to have been built c1770, which would make the bridge the oldest surviving railway bridge in Wales, and alternatively to have been built c1802. Masonry details suggest that the present bridge was built later, although still perhaps in the first half of the C19, and therefore replaced an earlier structure. The tramroad was still in use in 1863.
Exterior
A single-span bridge of coursed stone (overgrown at the time of inspection). Its segmental arch has hammer-dressed voussoirs.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special industrial-archaeological interest as an early railway bridge, associated with the oldest canal in Wales.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Cm 261 (CAM).
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