Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridgend Inn
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85669, -3.14115
- Cadw reference
- 7180
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the bottom of the street, overlooking the River Usk.
History
Mixed C19 and modern; incorporating later C19 former toll house at W end; C17 or early C18 origins, perhaps contemporary with the building of the bridge.
Exterior
Long 2-storey, 5-window roughcast front, slate roofs and boarded eaves and brick chimney stacks. Sash windows with glazing bars and some modern windows, cambered heads to ground floor; modern entrance under bracketed hood. Whitewashed rubble polygonal W end with brick surrounds to sash windows, further modern door; roof cat slides to rear.
Later C19 whitewashed rubble parallel range at rear with sash windows and cross gable to left. Yard below roadway.
Interior
Ground floor retains much of the earlier structure with exposed beams.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Crickhowell BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- 19 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 18 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bethabara Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.