At first glance it reads as a typical rural hump-backed crossing, the kind that forces oncoming cars into an awkward negotiation. Look more carefully, though, and the bridge reveals that it has been added to, adjusted, and quietly complicated over time in ways that tell a small story about how roads and their demands kept changing long after the original stonework was laid.

The bridge carries a road 5.52 metres wide across the river on three semicircular arches, each built with rough voussoirs, the wedge-shaped stones that lock an arch together and carry its load. The northern arch has been repaired at some point, and the southern end of the bridge was widened by 2.1 metres, apparently to allow the road to cut more directly across a corner rather than following the original line. Where the new facing was added, the voussoirs were cut rather than laid in their traditional rough form, a detail that marks the join between old and new with reasonable clarity once you know to look for it. On the upstream face, low pointed breakwaters project from the piers, a practical addition designed to split the current and reduce the pressure of water against the structure during high flow. Beneath the bridge, original stone paving survives on the riverbed. The parapet wall, finished with vertical stone coping, is thought to be roughly contemporary with the widening and other additions rather than part of the earliest phase of construction.