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
80961
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/03/2003
Date of Amendment
11/03/2003
Name of Property
Centre ventilation shaft to Morlais Tunnel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Community
Pant
Town
Locality
Pant
Easting
306070
Northing
209498
Street Side
Location
Situated near the SE corner of the car park to the Brecon Mountain Railway station at Pant.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Later C19 large ventilation shaft, one of 3 to Morlais or Miler tunnel of 1879 on the London and North Western Railway. This railway, one of several in the Merthyr area, came from Abergavenny went through the tunnel to Pontsarn, Cefn Coed and eventually to Merthyr using the joint line with the Brecon and Merthyr Railway.
Exterior
Ventilation shaft to railway tunnel, circular, red brick with battered sides and raised brick square labels under brick top band, itself under sandstone coping carrying shallow-domed iron protective grille. Bricks are laid in alternate courses of headers and stretchers.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as one of an exceptional group of distinctive railway structures from the industrial history of the area.
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