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
27113
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/11/2002
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Railway Bridge by Chepstow Station
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Chepstow
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Chepstow
Easting
353668
Northing
193740
Street Side
N
Location
On the N side of the station at the entrance to the Fairfield Mabey works.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Partly an original bridge of the Brunel railway of 1850, later extended on the downhill side.
Exterior
Railway bridge. Built of coursed rockfaced stone with tooled stone dressings. A wide chamfered segmental arch spans the road, narrow brick lining to the vault and blue-brick header arch to downhill (E) side, voussoirs to the uphill (W) side. Above is the deck with side rails. Parapet has coping on downhill side, lost to uphill side which has inset metal straps; at base a roll-moulded band. Curved and angled abutments partly buttressed.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as part of the Brunel railway close to the Brunel station. Group value with this, the footbridge and the former steam mill within the works.
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