Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lugg Bridge
Presteigne, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Presteigne, Powys, designated on 28 November 1950.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 28 November 1950
- Community
- Presteigne
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.27542, -3.00317
- Cadw reference
- 8832
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 1637 map "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 180 Knighton (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At far end of Broad Street and partly in England.
Exterior
Small C17 stone bridge over River Lugg on Hereford border. Rubble facings (heavily repointed), 3 segmental arches with rough voussoirs, 2 V-shaped cutwaters per side, low rubble parapets with flat copings, inset boundary stones. Gently cambered roadway with paired pedestrian refuges, clink stones, modern tarmac surface.
Cutwaters and abutments are now embedded in modern concrete plinths studded with random rubble.
The condition of the structure is heavily restored.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Ford View (formerly Old Bridge Inn)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Tan HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 20&21 Broad StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Fold FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.