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
80908
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/02/2003
Date of Amendment
05/04/2016
Name of Property
Pontygwaith Overbridge
Address
Penydarren Tramroad
Location
Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Community
Treharris
Town
Merthyr Tydfil
Locality
Pontygwaith
Easting
308092
Northing
197757
Street Side
Location
Reached down a steep by-road from the old Cardiff to Merthyr road; by-road crosses the former Taff Vale Railway just before the overbridge.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Overbridge carrying the track to Pont y Gwaith over the Penydarren tramroad, said to be mid C19 as crossing a diversion on the tramroad. The bridge immediately adjoins the bridge over the Taff Vale railway opened in 1841 and may have been rebuilt to accommodate the altered roadway. Restored as part of the Trevithick 2004 Project.
Exterior
Road bridge over former tramroad, abutting railway bridge. Rubble stone, tall narrow arch with stone voussoirs and rubble stone, the parapets sloping up with roadway to abut railway bridge parapets.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as a stone overbridge over the Penydarren tramroad, a nationally important feature in the history of iron production and railway development in Wales. Group value with the adjacent railway bridge.
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