Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lower Eirw bridge
Trehafod, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 1 August 1996
- Locality
- Trehafod
- Community
- Trehafod
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61017, -3.38305
- Cadw reference
- 17127
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Bridge over River Rhondda linking former Lewis Merthyr Colliery on Coedcae Road with town centre on Trehafod Road.
History
Bridge shown on this site in OS Second Edition Map 1900. Inscription records widening in 1907 and reconstruction in 1927 by Rhondda Borough Council, designed and erected by staff of Council with structural engineer E. Taylor and made by Horsehay Co., of Shropshire. Originally carried a tramway.
Exterior
A single span road bridge; of bow girder construction comprising 2 painted curved metal parapets with uprights and diagonal braces on either side of the road, with adjacent on each side a footpath with latticework parapet and pyramidal caps and billet mouldings to uprights. End piers of channelled concrete with moulded shallow pyramidal caps over billet moulding; cast inscription on each end pier surmounted by decorative shaft. Beneath, the metal supports end in scrolled corbels on upstream side. Rockfaced stone abutments. These show evidence of widening and the footings of the cutwaters to the previous bridge are visible.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as an intact example of this type of inter-war bridge construction.
Nearby in the register
- Ventilation Furnace, TrehafodChimneyunder 1 mi
- Trehafod Memorial Hall and InstituteInstitutionalunder 1 mi
- Former Lewis Merthyr Colliery chimneyIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Former Lewis Merthyr Colliery fan houseIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.