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
80963
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/03/2003
Date of Amendment
11/03/2003
Name of Property
White Gate Road Bridge and Aqueduct
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Community
Pant
Town
Locality
Pengarnddu
Easting
307082
Northing
208821
Street Side
Location
Some 100m N of the reservoir on the N side of the Heads of the Valley road and just W of the grid sub station at Pengarnddu.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Built c1864 to take a road and watercourse on the Dowlais Free Drainage System over the Newport branch of the Brecon and Merthyr Railway. Arch repaired in 1952.
Exterior
Road bridge and aqueduct, rock-faced grey stone, single elliptical arch of 7.3m span with stone voussoirs between battered piers. Raised band above parapet stepped forward over piers. Rock-faced stone coping. Aqueduct approximately 1m wide is behind S parapet and roadway, some 3m wide, has sloping brick parapets for one course at E to 12 courses at W.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a rare example of a combined road bridge and aqueduct, the latter on the historically important Dowlais Free Drainage System.
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