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
81343
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/07/2003
Date of Amendment
23/07/2003
Name of Property
Railway viaduct over Afon Ebwy (partly in Graig community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Rogerstone
Town
Newport
Locality
Bassaleg
Easting
327821
Northing
187205
Street Side
E
Location
Crossing the Afon Ebwy from E to W on the NE side of Bassaleg.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Railway viaduct built for Rumney Railway Co. in 1826 probably to design of George Overton, the company's surveyor, and the largest surviving early railway viaduct in South Wales, and therefore one of the largest built anywhere before the era of the locomotive. Widened in 1863 for the Brecon & Merthyr Railway.
Exterior
Railway viaduct, squared rubble stone with 4 round arches,, the arches with cut stone voussoirs. Three piers with two-step triangular cutwaters, the top step chamfered back to a flat pier also stepped in. Thin string course between piers under high parapet, the coping and top level possibly cut down. Outer big splayed abutments have similar raised piers. Much iron strapping.
Interior
Reason for designation
Graded II* as one of the most important early railway bridges in Wales.
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