Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tanhouse Bridge
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Wern, Welshpool, Powys, designated on 29 December 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 December 1994
- Locality
- Wern
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.71262, -3.10522
- Cadw reference
- 15439
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)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (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
Canal bridge No.108 over the Montgomeryshire Canal.
History
c.1820-33, G Buck, Engineer.
Exterior
Stone coped brick abutments with blue engineering brick chamfered vertical corners. Applied iron strips to protect corners on towpath. Bridge of five fish-bellied cast iron 'T'-joists with 170 x 40mm bottom flange, depth 210-280mm, the outer joist cast iron with pockets for timber guard rail, all bearing on stone padstones. Roadway carried on later corrugated iron between joists. Oval cast iron plate with bridge number affixed to abutment under bridge. Towpath revetted with special large cow-nosed blue engineering bricks by Tibbington Co. Tipton. [Staffs], probably set in 1880-1890 when canal was overhauled by the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Co.
Reason for designation
One of a number of ironwork structures added during engineering improvements to the canal in early C19.
Nearby in the register
- Wern BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Bridge 109 over the Montgomeryshire CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Bank LockTransportunder 1 mi
- Gauging Weir Structures at the Wern, Wern MillTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.