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
82273
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/12/2003
Date of Amendment
15/12/2003
Name of Property
Bridge over Neath Canal at Ynysarwed
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Resolven
Town
Neath
Locality
Ynysarwed
Easting
281072
Northing
201893
Street Side
Location
On the Neath Canal some 700m SW of Abergarwed.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Late C18 bridge crossing the Neath Canal giving access to Ynys-arwed Farm. The canal was originally planned from Pontneddfechan to Neath and was started in 1791 with Thomas Dadford Junior as General Surveyor. Thomas Sheasby replaced him in mid 1792 and the Neath Canal was completed in 1795. By 1799 the canal had been extended to the Giant's Grave near Briton Ferry.
Exterior
Canal bridge, rubble stone, single segmental arch with tooled cut stone voussoirs. Slightly humped with rubble stone parapets with some thin stone copings on NE and NW quadrants, the rest in rounded cement. Abutments curve out slightly each side, the NW quadrant ending in a square pier and the parapets on the SW quadrant decending to towpath level.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special historic interest as a largely unaltered bridge on this important C18 canal.
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