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Latitude: 53.1096 / 53°6'34"N
Longitude: -3.3704 / 3°22'13"W
OS Eastings: 308359
OS Northings: 357814
OS Grid: SJ083578
Mapcode National: GBR 6P.83RN
Mapcode Global: WH77G.639F
Plus Code: 9C5R4J5H+RR
Entry Name: Bont-uchel
Listing Date: 17 June 1999
Last Amended: 17 June 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 21871
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300021871
Location: Located towards the eastern boundary of the community at the western end of the eponymous village; spanning the Afon Clywedog.
County: Denbighshire
Community: Cyffylliog
Community: Cyffylliog
Locality: Bont-uchel
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Road bridge, in its present form probably of C18 date, though with earlier origins; the parapets are replacements of the mid or third-quarter C19.
Large single-span road bridge constructed of squared, rough-dressed limestone blocks; approximately 20m long. Tall, wide segmental arch with rough-dressed voussoirs recessed below a projecting archring, and with large keystone to the up-river side. Flat carriageway with quarry-dressed parapets and copings, the former splayed slightly at the approaches, most noticeably at the S end; the copings are fixed with iron ties. Terminating square piers to the parapets on the S side and the down-river side of the N end; its opposite, to the S, has been disturbed by the subsequent construction of a building on that side; bench mark to the inner face of the southern up-river pier. Stepped-down from the latter is an associated section of parapetted rubble revetment wall which curves in an arc for approximately 8 m in 2 stages. Opposite this, on the southern down-river side, is a similar wall which follows the line of the road eastwards in an arc for approximately 50m; here it terminates some 3m short of a second, smaller road bridge (Bridge to E of Bont-uchel Chapel); slab copings.
Listed for its special interest as a good C19 road bridge with earlier origins in a prominent village location.
Group value with the Bridge to E of Bont Uchel Chapel.
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