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
20742
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/10/1998
Date of Amendment
23/10/1998
Name of Property
Cildeudy tunnel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Llangynwyd Lower
Town
Llangynwyd Lower
Locality
Goetre-hen
Easting
288967
Northing
185371
Street Side
W
Location
The tunnel runs under the Cildeudy Road immediately W of its junction with the main A4063 Maesteg Road, at the S end of Goetre-hen.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
The tunnel was built by Sir Robert Price, industrialist, MP for Herefordshire between 1837 and 1847, to carry his private line under Cildeudy Road to transport coals from Bettws Colliery to his ironworks at Tondu. The private tramway was built when Sir Robert, originally a major shareholder in the Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Tramway, considered the level of haulage tolls charged by the Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway were too great to be borne.
Exterior
The tramway tunnel is built of local stone, and is approximately 42.5m long and 2.4m wide, the arch intrados reaching approximately 2.55m above the track bed. Each portal consists of a semicircular arch of regular ashlar voussoirs, 33cm deep with an emphasised drop keystone, and rises from hammer-dressed springers. The retaining wall either side of the N portal is curved and includes refactory brick wasters from Price's brickworks at Tondu, of irregular sizes, including 290 x 85mm, 120 x 350mm and the largest at 340 x 410mm. One is impressed with the digits S[3]8, another 30. The water leet serving the ironworks, which elsewhere runs parallel to the tramway, is conducted through the same tunnel below the level of the rails.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as one of the best preserved tramroad tunnels in S Wales.
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