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
11204
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
26/10/1979  
Date of Amendment
13/03/2003  
Name of Property
Ynysmeudwy Uchaf Overbridge on Swansea Canal  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot  
Community
Pontardawe  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
274063  
Northing
205713  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated approximately 60m SE of the Cwm Du bridge carrying the A4067 over the canal.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
Canal bridge, late C18, over the Swansea Canal. The 16-mile Swansea Canal was opened in 1798 to Hen Neuadd, Abercraf, declined after the railway opened in 1852 and closed in 1931. The ruins of the former Ynysmeudwy Pottery Brickworks and later Bryn Tinplate works lie to the south. The iron ribs on the underside were added to strengthen the bridge at the expense of the Bryn Tinplate works. The tinplate works were built in 1880 on the site of the pottery which had closed in 1877.  

Exterior
Canal overbridge, rubble stone single arch bridge. Segmental arch with tooled cut stone voussoirs and soffit of 5 iron ribs bolted on each end. Parapets of large rubble stone slabs only on NW the rest presumably removed and repaired with cement. Small buttress on NE towpath side. This side also has a ramp access to towpath level.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as an intact canal overbridge of the late C18.  

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