Its parapets and body are so heavily overgrown that the stonework beneath is easy to miss, yet underneath all that vegetation sits a carefully constructed span of random rubble sandstone, its two semicircular arches rising from tall abutments and a central pier. The bridge is just 5.8 metres wide, oriented roughly north to south, and the whole structure has the compact, purposeful quality of a river crossing that has been doing its job for a very long time.

The most distinctive feature is the cutwater on the upstream, eastern face of the central pier. A cutwater is a projecting wedge of masonry built against the current-facing side of a pier to divide the flow of water and reduce the force pressing against the structure. Here, the cutwater is pointed and relatively tall, appearing to reach to within about a metre of the top of the parapet, which gives the pier an unusually prominent profile when seen from the riverbank. The bridge has been substantially reinforced over the years: the underside has been underpinned using concrete, and the parapet coping, the flat or angled stonework along the top of the parapet wall, has also been replaced in concrete. These interventions speak to a crossing that was considered worth preserving rather than replacing, though they sit awkwardly alongside the original sandstone fabric.