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
11854
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
28/03/1990  
Date of Amendment
30/01/2004  
Name of Property
Rheola Brook Aqueduct  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot  
Community
Glynneath  
Town
Neath  
Locality
Rheola  
Easting
284227  
Northing
203974  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated crossing the Neath Canal just S of the B4242 and opposite the entrance to Rheola House.  

Description


Broad Class
Water Supply and Drainage  
Period
 

History
Cast-iron former aqueduct built to carry the Rheola Brook over the Neath Canal, now dry and used as footbridge. Presumably of c1830 and made at the Neath Abbey Ironworks.  

Exterior
Cast-iron aqueduct made up of massive cast-iron pieces, two side pieces with decorated outer faces and six base pieces. The sides have eleven thin Roman Doric half-columns as decoration. Broad channel of joined single massive pieces. Bridge is set between rubble stone piers of squared stones, each pier with triangular-section faces. Channel to N is between parapets with cobbled channel and two further triangular-faced piers. To S channel slopes down slightly with parapets which are then cut for access ramps down to canal.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as a fine example of the remarkable cast-iron aqueducts made at Neath Abbey ironworks for the Neath Canal.  

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