Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
84258
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/03/2005
Date of Amendment
16/03/2005
Name of Property
Iron footbridge over Afon Mynach
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Pontarfynach
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Pontarfynach
Easting
274155
Northing
277225
Street Side
Location
Crossing the Afon Mynach on the bottom of the gorge some 200m N of the A4120 road bridge.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Arched metal bridge over the Afon Mynach, built 1867 by T. Stooke engineer, made by the 'Aberystwith Foundry', according to attached plaque. It is not certain which foundry is meant, and Stooke is otherwise unknown. The bridge is probably linked to the improvements to the hotel and the amenities carried out by the Hafod Hotel Company, formed in 1861 by Mr. Balcombe, promoter also of the Queens Hotel Aberystwyth and other projects, but Balcombe was bankrupt in about 1866.
Exterior
Pedestrian bridge over the Mynach. High arched bridge made of riveted iron. Construction apparently of thin bows, two in parallel below carrying the (renewed) steps and decking and two forming the handrails, linked and braced by thin uprights with diagonally-crossed bars between, every second upright secured by a raking support projecting out from under the decking. A thin metal rod at mid-height links the crossings of the diagonals. Solid sheet metal panels at each end one with makers plaque 'Aberystwith Foundry 1867 Thos Stooke Engineer'.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a C19 bowed footbridge of remarkable riveted iron construction, part of the development of the site for tourism in the 1860s.
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