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
19181
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/01/1998
Date of Amendment
02/01/1998
Name of Property
Accommodation Bridge over the former Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Pyle
Town
Cynffig
Locality
Kenfig Hill
Easting
284013
Northing
182090
Street Side
Location
The bridge now spans the walk formed along the track of the railway on the W side of the Woodlands Park estate, carrying a farm track. It lies approximately 100m S of the S corner of the estate.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The Duffryn, Llynvi and Porthcawl tramway was built to carry coal, and later spelter and ironstone, from Caerau at the head of the Llynfi Valley through Maesteg, Tondu and Kenfig Hill to the seaport at Porthcawl, a total of about 27 kilometres. After the authorising Act of Parliament of 1825, work started in 1826 and it was opened in 1828, being converted from being horse-drawn to steam in 1847. The engineer was John Hodgkinson. It was of 4ft 6in (1.37 metres) gauge, comprising iron fish-bellied rails between 0.9 metres and 1.21 metres long held by chairs anchored to stones, and laid to a gradient of 1:180. Stones were originally laid down the centre for horses, and a path to the side for the hauliers.
Exterior
The bridge is built entirely of rock-faced local stone, and consists of a half-round arch spanning between battered retaining walls giving a quasi-horseshoe form. The arch is of regularly sized rock-faced voussoirs, and the flush parapet has stone-on-edge copings between slight end pilasters. The revetting walls are coped on a steep angle from the base of the parapet to near ground level each side. The decking is now a concrete slab.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as one of the few significant remains of this historically important railway line, and little altered since its erection.
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