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
11802
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/01/1989
Date of Amendment
05/01/1989
Name of Property
Subway Under Railway
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Neath
Town
Locality
Easting
275108
Northing
197547
Street Side
Location
At the end of the road below Maes-yr-Haf Chapel and linking it with Commercial Street.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Pedestrian subway under Chepstow to Swansea railway, engineered by Brunel and opened 18 June 1850.
Exterior
Splayed entrance to Commercial Street. Ramped retaining walls, squared coursed stonework, stone caps. Segmental arch to subway, stone voussoirs, stressed keystone. Vermiculated band of stone blocks, parapet over, stressed quoins, stone caps. Whitewashed vaulted passageway. Similar entrance to Maes-yr-Haf Road with taller parapet, later tile capping. No retaining walls.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with Capel Soar.
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