Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old Boultibrooke Bridge
Presteigne, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 26 March 1985
- Locality
- Boultibrooke
- Community
- Presteigne
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.28105, -3.01423
- Cadw reference
- 8929
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 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Across the River Lugg immediately to west of the Presteigne to Norton Road and giving access to sawmill.
History
Probably C18 and now bypassed by the 1932 bridge on the main road.
Exterior
Narrow single-span segmental-arched bridge, coursed rubble with voussoirs to arch-ring; checked back and splayed outer faces of abutments. Raked stone parapets with wide capping stones (partly broken), clink stones to apex of roadway.
Nearby in the register
- Boultibrooke HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Coach House and Service Range at Boultibrooke HoseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lodge to Boultibrooke HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Old Mill (formerly "New Mill House")Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.