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
26492
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/04/2002
Date of Amendment
29/04/2002
Name of Property
Railway viaduct over Factory Road
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Bargoed
Town
Bargoed
Locality
Bargoed
Easting
314986
Northing
200291
Street Side
Location
Spanning the valley of Nant Bargoed approximately 300m N of Bargoed station.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
An integral component of the original Rhymney Railway which was begun in 1854 and opened in 1858 from Rhymney, via Walnut Tree Junction, to Cardiff.
Exterior
A curved 7-bay viaduct of snecked rock-faced stone. Piers have wide splays to round arches with impost bands. The 3 piers to the N end, and the N abutment, have tie rods to the spandrels, with square plates. The abutments have shallow buttresses. A projecting band is below the parapet, which has rock-faced copings and terminates with simple rectangular piers slightly splayed out. The deck is laid with a double track.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a visually imposing and fine work of C19 civil engineering.
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