Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
80995
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/03/2003
Date of Amendment
13/03/2003
Name of Property
Ynysmeudwy Isaf Overbridge on Swansea Canal
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Pontardawe
Town
Swansea
Locality
Ynysmeudwy
Easting
272800
Northing
204600
Street Side
Location
Situated on the Swansea Canal some 80m S of Ynysmeudwy Isaf.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Canal bridge, late C18, over the Swansea Canal. The 16-mile Swansea Canal was opened in 1798 to Hen Neuadd, Abercraf, declined after the railway opened in 1852 and closed in 1931.
Exterior
Canal overbridge, rubble stone single arch bridge. Segmental arch with tooled cut stone voussoirs. Abutments curve out slightly each side to square end piers. Parapets of large rubble stone slabs, some on the SW side removed and replaced with cement coping. The SW parapet and NE pier on the towpath side have been repaired in red brick.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an intact canal overbridge apparently of the late C18.
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