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
21009
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/12/1998
Date of Amendment
23/12/1998
Name of Property
Former Railway bridge over canal outfall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Crosskeys
Town
Locality
Pont-y-Waun
Easting
321940
Northing
192728
Street Side
Location
In the centre of Pont-y-Waun near the Philanthropic Inn, adjacent to the canal on the W side and N of the former Pont-y-Waun farm in the meadow below.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Canal outfall and railway shows on OS maps, both First Edition 1886 surveyed 1873-9 and Second Edition 1902. The railway is shown as a tramway on the First Edition map and appears to have been remodelled by the time of the Second Edition map as the Great Western Region Pennar Branch, joining with the 1850s Western Valley Line further S. Nearby viaduct remodelled c 1900 shares the same line.
Exterior
A high arch carrying the railway over the canal outfall. Almost entirely masked by vegetation, the bridge is of giant rockfaced coursed stone blocks with dressed arises, buttressed to N. The canal sluice is on the E side and a culvert channels the water under the canal, exiting through the brick-vaulted round-headed arch as a waterfall. Low parapet has blue moulded brick coping with a projecting tooled course at base level on the outer face.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a prominent railway structure from the later C19 on a huge scale and with historical associations with the canal. Group value with nearby Viaduct.
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