Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lock Road Bridge
Llanfrynach, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 17 January 1963
- Locality
- Cefn Brynich
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Llanfrynach
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.93635, -3.34346
- Cadw reference
- 6764
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
Situated some 200m S of the A40, carrying the road to Llanfrynach across the river Usk.
History
Late C18 road bridge over the Usk.
Exterior
Road bridge over the river Usk. Rubble stone, four elliptical recessed arches with stone voussoirs separated by full-height cutwaters with pedestrian refuges. The S arch is lower than the other three. The cutwaters are slightly stepped, in three tiers with the bottom tier in squared stonework. Over the crown of each arch is a square drainage hole from the roadway.
Reason for designation
Graded II* for its exceptional interest as a particularly well designed road bridge over the Usk.
Nearby in the register
- Lock CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Canal Bridge No 163 and Cefn Brynich Lock ChamberTransportunder 1 mi
- Lock HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Brynich Aqueduct (Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal)Aqueductunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.