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
23140
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/03/2000
Date of Amendment
18/08/2000
Name of Property
Stow Hill Railway Tunnel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Stow Hill
Town
Locality
Easting
330501
Northing
187577
Street Side
Location
Takes railway line under Stow Hill from a point S of Newport Station, emerging near Llandaff Street.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Bears the date 1848. Engineered by Brunel for the South Wales Railway. The South Wales Railway was, with the Chester & Holyhead Railway along the North Wales Coast, the most important of the early routes into Wales. In the early C20, the line was doubled, and a second tunnel built parallel to this work, on its W side.
Exterior
The easterly of the 2 tunnels under Stow Hill. This tunnel runs from a point about 450m SW of Newport Station (just N of Windsor Terrace) for around 650m, emerging about 150m NW of Llandaff Street. Both N and S portals consist of round-headed arch of heavily rock-faced voussoirs, showing influence of Italian C16 architecture. Set in walling of coursed rock-faced masonry.
Interior
The interior of the tunnel is faced in stone. Repairs in sprayed concrete 1987.
Reason for designation
Important early railway structure from grand project of South Wales Railway.
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