 Thomas Telford worked as the county surveyor of Shropshire between 1787 to 1834, and the bridge is reported to have once held a cast iron plate above the centre of the arch inscribed with ""Thomas Telford Esqr - Engineer - 1818"", which is apparently visible in historic photographs, but has not been in place since at least 1985.The bridge design incorporates dressed red and grey sandstone abutments with ashlar dressings, these are slightly curved and ramped, with chamfered ashlar quoins, string courses, and moulded cornices.The structural cast-iron consists of a single segmental span with four arched lattice ribs, braced by five transverse cast-ironmembers.