Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
23250
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/04/2000
Date of Amendment
28/04/2000
Name of Property
Velindre Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Port Talbot
Town
Port Talbot
Locality
Velindre
Easting
276774
Northing
190402
Street Side
Location
Located at the SW corner of the settlement of Velindre and now carrying a path which runs parallel with Cwmavon Road.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Early C19 horse-drawn railway bridge. Associated with the development of industry in Cwmavon and providing an export route towards the docks which were established in Aberavon in 1837. Shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey of 1881 as the Cwmavon Tramway. It was widened to the E in the late C19 or early C20 to carry the double tracks of the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway.
Exterior
Four-bay viaduct with round arches. Of rubble stone to the W and snecked stone to the E. The 3 arches to the S span the River Afan, whilst that to the N passes over a narrow lane. The arches of the W side have narrow dressed voussoirs and low triangular cutwaters, stepped above. Rubble stone parapets, partially missing, and with no string course. The abutments are slightly splayed. In the S abutment is part of an infilled segmental arch, probably relating to an earlier bridge. The E side is of snecked rock-faced stone with matching voussoirs, a string course and parapets, which are partially missing. Also with low stepped cutwaters. Flat deck, now used as a foot and cycle path.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare survival of a horse-drawn tramway bridge associated with the industrialisation of the area.
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