Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge at Penarth Mill
Trellech United, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanishen, Monmouth, Trellech United, Monmouthshire, designated on 28 February 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 28 February 2001
- Locality
- Llanishen
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Trellech United
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73591, -2.75666
- Cadw reference
- 24934
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 233 Monmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
About 1200m to the north of the Church of St Dennis at Llanishen but approached down a long lane from the north west beginning at Hill Farm.
History
A probably early C19 bridge, now a rare survival, but once characteristic of the apparently random road pattern in these remote rural areas. It gives access up to the Monmouth-Chepstow turnpike via Pant-glas Farm, but now carrries only a footpath.
Exterior
The bridge is built of red sandstone conglomerate rubble with dressed voussoirs to the single segmental arch. Rounded coping stones to the parapet. The abutment walls are splayed sharply to allow waggons to make the right angled turn to the mill which may suggest that the bridge was reconstructed contemporaneously with the mill building.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare survival of an unaltered early C19 bridge of the pre-turnpike roads on a road now declined to a footpath.
Nearby in the register
- Penarth MillAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pant-glas FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Pant-glas FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Granary at Pant-glas FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.