Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Pensarn (partly in Pwllheli Community)
Llannor, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Efailnewydd, Pwllheli, Llannor, Gwynedd, designated on 19 October 1971.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 19 October 1971
- Locality
- Efailnewydd
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Llannor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.88985, -4.43764
- Cadw reference
- 4331
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 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 134 Pwllheli (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The bridge carries the road from Efailnewydd over the Afon Rhyd-hir into the N part of Pwllheli, forming the boundary of the communities of Llannor and Pwllheli.
History
Probably built in 1775.
Exterior
Built of rubble stonework. A single arch spanning approximately 4m, rising 2.4m above the river, formed with well shaped stone voussoirs slightly set back under the flush rubble spandrels. The spandrels rise to high parapet walls 48cm thick, coped with granite blocks, and which delimit the 5.4 wide carriageway across the causeway.
Reason for designation
Included as a well formed later C18 road bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Pont PensarnTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont PenmaenTransportunder 1 mi
- Ffynnon Felin BachCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Pont-y-Garreg FachanTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.