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
7468
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/11/1979
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Pont-y-Yard
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Tawe-Uchaf
Town
Swansea
Locality
Abercraf
Easting
281528
Northing
212484
Street Side
Location
Situated some 100m S of the main road, across waste land, and just NW of Yard House.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Former tramway bridge of c1823-4 across the Tawe, now providing road access to Yard House (listed under Tawe Uchaf community). The bridge was built for Daniel Harper of the British Iron & Coal Co. (later Abercrave Colliery Co.) for a coal tramroad down from the Level Fawr colliery. The original intention was for the bridge to be an aqueduct so that coal could be loaded onto boats and sent to the Swansea Canal across the valley. Instead the coal was brought to The Yard, the wide open space by the river, and thence transhipped to the canal. Yard House was the manager's house. The stone abutment of an earlier timber bridge noted to W of S end of bridge in 1977 was not identifiable at time of survey, possibly overgrown or washed away.
Exterior
Bridge, rubble stone, single very high arch over river with grey cut stone voussoirs. Spandrels have small pierced holes also with grey stone voussoirs. Projecting course under rubble parapets with stone coping, some replaced in concrete. Splayed abutments almost all rebuilt in C20, in concrete to both N end splays, red brick to SE splay.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an impressive single-span bridge, and for industrial archaeological interest.
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