Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge over Cwm Trafle SE of Ty Dabuan
Llanwrthwl, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 14 November 2000
- Locality
- Cwm Trafle
- Community
- Llanwrthwl
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.23511, -3.47454
- Cadw reference
- 24381
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On a minor road between Llysdinam and Ty Dabuan approximately 0.3km SSE of Ty Dabuan.
History
Built in 1839 by Thomas Price of Llangammarch, for the country estate of James Watt of Soho, Birmingham, the son of the famous inventor (the details are recorded on a tablet on the parapet). One of 3 surviving estate bridges built by Price in 1839.
Exterior
A single-carriageway rubble-stone bridge with stepped abutments and parapets. A round arch with hammer-dressed voussoirs and projecting key is set back from the face of the bridge behind dressed quoins. The abutments and parapet curve outwards, more pronounced on the downstream side, and terminate with simple square piers. A dated tablet is set into the parapet on the upstream side. The flat copings are partly replaced in concrete.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good though simple early C19 road bridge and as one of a series of 3 estate bridges built across Cwm Trafle.
Nearby in the register
- Prest-dabuan barn with attached cow houseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Bridge over Cwm Trafle S of Prest-dabuan barnTransportunder 1 mi
- Garth cairn cemeteryRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Ffynnon Mary Burnt Mound 300m SE of Carn WenBurnt Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.