Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Road bridge over Cwm Trafle SE of Tycwtta Farm
Llanwrthwl, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cwm Trafle, Llanwrthwl, Powys, designated on 14 November 2000.
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
- 52.23270, -3.45282
- Cadw reference
- 24383
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On a minor road between Llysdinam and Tycwtta Farm approximately 0.5km SE of Tycwtta Farm.
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 bridge of coursed rubble stone. A single segmental arch with hammer-dressed voussoirs and keystone is set back from the main face of the bridge behind hammer-dressed quoins. Above the arch, at the base of the parapet, is a thin dressed stone band. The parapet is stepped in, curves out at the ends to simple square terminal piers, and has flat stone copings. On the upstream side of the parapet is a stone tablet recording the building of the bridge.
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
- The Green, including attached former sawmill and farm buildingsNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- The HolmesNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Bridge over Cwm Trafle S of Prest-dabuan barnTransportunder 1 mi
- Prest-dabuan barn with attached cow houseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.