Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Road Bridge over Disused Railway cutting in centre of Wern
Carreghofa, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Carreghofa, Powys, designated on 5 April 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 5 April 1993
- Community
- Carreghofa
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.77858, -3.09902
- Cadw reference
- 14214
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 137 Oswestry (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Carries public road from Llanymynech to Newbridge at splayed angle over railway cutting.
History
Built 1866-1870 when the cutting of double track width for the Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway was made.
Exterior
Pink sandstone, rock-faced and snecked stonework, segmental arch with arch ring of five courses of red brick, the under-side of the bridge spanned by diagonal courses of brickwork. Two ramped stone buttresses, impost band and band course at base of parapet, stepped out end piers with dressed pitched coping stones, dressed stone copings to parapet.
Adjoins trough of canal aqueduct which was constructed at the same time; the masonry revetment walls to the cutting continue in an unbroken line ending in long raking abutments.
Reason for designation
Included for grouping with rare ironwork canal aqueduct adjoining.
Nearby in the register
- Carreghofa Aqueduct parallel to the Public Road 700m West of LlanymynechWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Cottage immediately to the east of Wern SchoolDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wern Bridge (Number 94)Transportunder 1 mi
- Old Elmtree Farmhouse and attached outbuilding.Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.