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
11839
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/01/1980
Date of Amendment
25/02/2000
Name of Property
Aberdulais Basin at the head of the Tennant Canal
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Tonna
Town
Locality
Aberdulais
Easting
277380
Northing
199370
Street Side
Location
Approximately 0.4km N of Tonna village on the E side of the River Neath and W of the Neath Canal.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The Tennant Canal, engineered by William Kirkhouse, was begun in 1821 and opened in 1824 from the Neath Canal at Aberdulais to Port Tennant, Swansea. The interchange basin is at the head of the Tennant Canal and linked the Neath and Tennant Canals. A dry dock was also built on its SE side. Traffic on the Tennant Canal declined from the 1860s due to competition with railways but the canal did not close to commercial traffic until 1934.
Exterior
An irregular shaped, stone-lined basin approximately 100m x 20m, part filled with reeds and rushes at the time of inspection (October 1999). At the NE end it joins the Neath Canal (beneath Pont Gam), while the SW end, now infilled, joined the Aberdulais Aqueduct. A concrete slipway on the SE side originally connected with a dry dock (now infilled).
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its industrial archaeological interest as an early C19 canal structure, and for group value with other associated listed items on the Tennant Canal at Aberdulais.
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