Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont-y-Bryn including walls and parapets to carriageway adjoining to the E and W
Llandderfel, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llandderfel, Gwynedd, designated on 31 January 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2001
- Locality
- Llandderfel
- Community
- Llandderfel
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91679, -3.51388
- Cadw reference
- 24586
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 136 Bala (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Carrying the road over the flood plain of the River Dee as a continuation of the Pont Fawr, which adjoins to the E.
History
C17 or C18 road bridge erected in the flood plain of the Dee a short distance to the E of the Pont Fawr. The two bridges were linked by a raised, parapeted carriageway, probably in the late C18 or early C19, at which time the bridge was doubled in width on the N side.
Exterior
Five-span road bridge incorporated within a raised parapetted carriageway. This connects the bridge to the main Dee bridge, the Pont Fawr, approximately 60m to the E. Of rubble construction, the carriageway raised up approximately 2.5m above the flood plain and with rubble parapets standing to an average height of 0.80m; slate-stone slab copings. The bridge section is approximately 25m in length and has five segmental arches. These have rough-dressed voussoirs recessed below archrings of narrow stones, and have low triangular cutwaters to the primary (southern) section, with flat surmounting buttresses. On the N side are similar flat dividing buttresses.
The carriageway section to the W of the bridge has a rebuilt parapet to the N side, though the original slab copings have been reused. Immediately W of the bridge is a 4-span flood arch arrangement with flat slatestone lintels; this is contemporary with the raised carriageway. To the E of the bridge section the parapet walls continue for some 30m on either side; on the N side, immediately E of the bridge, is a modern replacement section with large platform buttress to the river side (dated 1983-4).
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a C17 or C18 5-span bridge, widened and linked to the neighbouring Pont Fawr in the early C19.
Nearby in the register
- Pont FawrTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont FawrBridgeunder 1 mi
- Ty Bryn (Lodge to Pale Hall)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Gates, Gatepiers and Screen Walls at Pale HallGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.