bridge

Two-arch rubble limestone road bridge over river, c.1850, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier crossing, pre-1840, on site. Random rubble limestone walls with tooled dressed limestone shallow cut-waters having cut-limestone coping, iron tie plates, iron S-profile tie bars, and rendered rounded coping to parapets. Pair of round arches with limestone ashlar block-and-start voussoirs, and rendered soffits. Sited spanning Pill River with grass banks to river.

Making an imposing visual statement rising above the Pill River an elegantly-appointed bridge represents an important element of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering legacy of Piltown. Exhibiting a traditional construction in unrefined stone producing a rustic quality somewhat at odds with the graceful profile of the arches the incongruous juxtaposition is diminished by the introduction of Classically-derived dressings displaying particularly fine stone masonry.