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
20758
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/11/1998
Date of Amendment
09/11/1998
Name of Property
Bridge over Incline Plane Tondu
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Ynysawdre
Town
Locality
Tondu
Easting
289218
Northing
184217
Street Side
Location
Just within the SW boundary of the community, W of Maesteg Road and the railway, just N of Tondu Methodist church.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The northernmost of the 3 bridges over the Incline Plane which was was built c.1854 originally to connect the proposed broad gauge Llynfi Valley railway to the earlier Dyffryn Llynfi and Porthcawl Railway, which ran to rear of the ironworking site, and to the coking area. After the Llynfi Valley railway opened in 1861 it provided principal access to coking ovens and the earlier line closed. The Incline Plane comprised a single track with no passing place and was powered by steam. The bridge carried a tramroad over the Incline Plane on its way to Bridgend, bringing limestone in and iron and coke out, and functioned from 1860-75., This was the successor to Sir Robert Price's private line, the tramroad which transported materials into and out of the ironworks during their first period of operation in 1840s and ran to N. The ironworks were taken over by the Brogden family in 1855 who themselves promoted the extension of the railway network through Acts of Parliament and were responsible for this era of transport in the Tondu Ironworks.
Exterior
Bridge consists of two deep stone abutments of snecked rockfaced stone with mainly yellow brick dressings. There are two channels for the iron bridge, the main part of which is still in situ and comprises 6 plated panels resting on an ashlar padstone. The rear abutments are angled to the gradient on the uphill side; at the front they are some 45 courses high and appear to have had some stone coping now mainly disappeared; no extant parapet; angled approach wall right. Now neglected and ivy covered though bridge is still a pathway.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a mostly intact structure of a mid C19 industrial transport complex and representative of the second stage of development under John Brogden of the Tondu Ironworks founded in 1830s by Sir Robert Price.
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