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
82345
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/03/2000
Date of Amendment
22/12/2003
Name of Property
Quaker's Viaduct (partly in Coedffranc community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Dyffryn Clydach
Town
Neath
Locality
Skewen
Easting
273087
Northing
197518
Street Side
E
Location
Spanning Drymau Road on the E side of Skewen and some 125m N of the main A4230.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Railway viaduct built for the South Wales Railway which was completed in 1850 between Chepstow and Swansea. The supervising engineer was I.K. Brunel, and the railway was built to a broad gauge. The bridge was built over a road and a tramroad taking coal to the Mines Royal Copper Works.
Exterior
Railway viaduct, 3 deep bays of snecked stone with tooled dressings to the elliptical arches. The central piers are pierced with round-headed openings. Projecting stone bands in each face define the base of the coped parapets that terminate in square piers above the abutments. The abutments are battered and retain an embankment on each side.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its industrial archaeological interest as a Brunel-period railway bridge and one of the original structures on the South Wales Railway.
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