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
26827
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
06/08/2002  
Date of Amendment
06/08/2002  
Name of Property
Tramroad causeway and bridge at Hirwaun Ironworks  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff  
Community
Hirwaun  
Town
Hirwaun  
Locality
Hirwaun  
Easting
295847  
Northing
205730  
Street Side
 
Location
Crossing the Afon Cynon approximately 100m NE of St Lleurwg's church, on the N side of Station Road and S side of the former Hirwaun Ironworks.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
Built 1806-8 by the engineer George Overton to replace an earlier bridge, sited immediately S of the present bridge, of a tramroad built in 1793, upon which raw materials were carried to the furnaces of Hirwaun ironworks and limestone was brought from the quarries at Penderyn.  

Exterior
A high single-track causeway approximately 100m in length, of snecked rubble, in parts rebuilt in coursed rubble. It crosses the Afon Cynon in a single span with segmental arch and narrow dressed-stone voussoirs. It is abutted on the R bank by coursed rubble revetments. The flat deck is a footpath retaining some stone sleeper blocks (overgrown at the time of inspection).  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed for its industrial archaeological importance as an early example of railway engineering. Scheduled Ancient Monument BR157  

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