Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Cennen (partly in Dyffryn Cennen community)
Llandybie, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Derwydd, Burry Port, Llandybie, Carmarthenshire, designated on 27 August 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 27 August 1999
- Locality
- Derwydd
- Town
- Burry Port
- Community
- Llandybie
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.84457, -3.99582
- Cadw reference
- 22217
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 1860 map "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 230 Ammanford (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 230 Ammanford (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In the village of Derwydd, crossing the River Cennen, 150m north of the road to Trapp.
History
A bridge appears to be indicated here on the map of 1812, and a bridge is certainly present according to the map of 1840. This was formerly an important road, the direct route from Llandeilo to Llandybie, before the easier present-day route via the Cennen valley was established.
Exterior
A vernacular road bridge in hammer-dressed limestone. Arch of high segmental form, slightly skewed, with a span of about 8m; voussoirs thin and about 0.4m tall. the bridge is about 3m in width between parapets.
The bridge parapets are about 0.9m in height, round-topped. They are slightly everted at the ends. The copings are mostly of metallic slag, which has been rendered over in places (at north-east). The south-east wing wall is the only part coped in limestone.
Reason for designation
A good vernacular bridge, which has retained its character and still has its slag copings.
Nearby in the register
- Pont Cennen (partly in Llandybie community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Two Burnt Mounds 600m ESE of Rhyd-y-Ffynnon FarmBurnt Moundunder 1 mi
- Derwydd Walled Garden and GazeboDomesticunder 1 mi
- Derwydd MansionDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.