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
11842
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/03/1980
Date of Amendment
30/01/2004
Name of Property
Aberpergwm Aqueduct over Neath Canal
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Glynneath
Town
Neath
Locality
Aberpergwm
Easting
286353
Northing
205850
Street Side
Location
Crossing the Neath Canal on the N side of the B4242 some 600 W of its junction with Chain Road.
Description
Broad Class
Water Supply and Drainage
Period
History
Aqueduct of c1835 carrying the Nant Ysgwrfa over the Neath Canal, one of a series of cast-iron troughs using large pieces of cast-iron cast at the Neath Abbey Ironworks, this one having the ironworks name and date (eroded) stamped. Very similar to the Farmer's Arms aqueduct near Resolven.
Exterior
Aqueduct, cast-iron trough with decorated side panels. The side panels have half-columns of Roman Doric type between 5 panels with raised borders and quadrant-curved rebates at angles. There are two long panels alternated with 3 short panels. Centre of one side has 'NEATH ABBEY GLAMORGANSHIRE 183?' in raised letters. The trough is carried on piers of squared stone, the SW one with finely worked curved front, as were possibly all four, the NW one overgrown, the E ones altered for parallel road bridge. The two E ones carry tall square piers with flat caps. Stone-cobbles spillway on downstream side.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as one of the remarkable series of cast-iron aqueducts made at the Neath Abbey Ironworks.
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