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
3075
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
24/09/1985  
Date of Amendment
22/08/2003  
Name of Property
Footbridge at former Tredegar Park Golf Course  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Newport  
Community
Graig  
Town
Newport  
Locality
Bassaleg  
Easting
328433  
Northing
186636  
Street Side
 
Location
Spanning the Ebbw River close to the M4 on the E side of the former Tredegar Park Golf Course.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
Probably dating from 1805 when the Park Mile Tramroad opened, iron superstructure of 1870 by C Jordan, engineers of Newport. The bridge and causeway were formerly part of a tramroad system linking Sirhowy and Tredegar with Newport Docks.  

Exterior
Triple-span bridge with rubble abutments and piers, some dressed masonry to V-shaped cutwaters and cappings (projecting supports indicates original bridge width). Later ironwork deck of flanged girders with slotted-in plates and bolted handrails. Balusters with ball-finals, plain rods, commemorative plaques with shaped heads, royal arms and Tredegar arms. Inscriptions on plaques read ' C Jordan Engineer, Iron and Brass Founder, Newport, Mon, 1870.' and ' Mr R Paine, Surveyor to the Right Hon. The Lord Tredegar 1970 '. Modern pipe fixed to W side.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as a rare survival of an early tramroad bridge.  

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