Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge over Nant Bran near Aberbran-fach Farm (partly in Trallong community)
Yscir, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 14 April 1966
- Locality
- Aberbran
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Yscir
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.95319, -3.47530
- Cadw reference
- 84270
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
Crossing the Nant Bran some 50m NE of Aberbran-fach Farm.
History
Field bridge from Aberbran Fach and mill, probably C18, steeply humped with cobbled surface to narrow roadway, a C18 type now very rare.
Exterior
Field bridge over the Nant Bran, rubble stone, single arch, steeply humped with thin crown and long thin stone voussoirs to arch. No parapet, just alternately higher and lower square coping stones. Narrow cobbled roadway.
Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as a rare example of a C18 steeply humped bridge for passage of animals across river.
Nearby in the register
- Bridge over Nant Bran near Aberbran-fach Farm (partly in Yscir community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Mill CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Farm courtyard at Aberbran FachAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Aberbran FachDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.