Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
99
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/06/1967
Date of Amendment
17/03/1999
Name of Property
Pont Faen
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llangernyw
Town
Abergele
Locality
Llangernyw
Easting
287749
Northing
367407
Street Side
Location
The bridge carries the road from Llangernyw to Llansannan across the Afon Cledwen 250m E of the village centre.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Probably built in late C18.
Exterior
Road bridge, gently cambered, built of local stone rubble with three segmental arches springing from water level each capped with projecting regulating course. The central arch which is wider than the others has a projecting composite key stone and is flanked by shallow pilasters which rise to the top of the parapets. Spandrels of long, flat rubble slabs rise to a projecting cambered string course at road level above which the parapets of roughly squared rubble are coped with flush sandstone slabs linked with iron cramps. Later sandstone cutwaters added to piers on S side. At each end parapets sweep outwards and terminate in square piers.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a fine unaltered example of a larger type of bridge typical of the improvements to commercial routes between rural communities carried out in the late C18 and early C19.
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