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
14215
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
05/04/1993  
Date of Amendment
05/04/1993  
Name of Property
Carreghofa Aqueduct parallel to the Public Road 700m West of Llanymynech  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Carreghofa  
Town
 
Locality
Wern  
Easting
325940  
Northing
320686  
Street Side
 
Location
Half-a-mile west of Llanymynech midway between canal bridges 94 (Wern Bridge) and 93 (Walls Bridge); lies parallel to B4398.  

Description


Broad Class
Water Supply and Drainage  
Period
 

History
Aqueduct inserted between 1866 and 1870 into the Llanymynech branch of the Ellesmere Canal (opened 1797) when the long cutting for the Potteries, Shrewsbury North Wales Railway was constructed.  

Exterior
The canal is carried in a riveted metal-plated trough with canted sides supported by timber-capped longitudinal girders with triangular braces. Beneath are trabeated cast-iron supports running down the centre of the former double trackway; single and paired uprights with cross-brackets and flanged bases bolted to masonry piers. Splayed bull-faced masonry abutment with ramped outer wall with stone cappings. Vertical joint divides aqueduct from brickwork of abutting road bridge. To the north are the remains of the canal approaches to a temporary aqueduct dismantled after the construction works.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
An exceptional, small-scale example of ironwork canal trough. S Hughes, Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, RCAHM (Wales) 1988, 157  

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