Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
05/01/1989
Date of Amendment
05/01/1989
Name of Property
Subway Under Railway
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Location
At the end of the road below Maes-yr-Haf Chapel and linking it with Commercial Street.
History
Pedestrian subway under Chepstow to Swansea railway, engineered by Brunel and opened 18 June 1850.
Exterior
Splayed entrance to Commercial Street. Ramped retaining walls, squared coursed stonework, stone caps. Segmental arch to subway, stone voussoirs, stressed keystone. Vermiculated band of stone blocks, parapet over, stressed quoins, stone caps. Whitewashed vaulted passageway. Similar entrance to Maes-yr-Haf Road with taller parapet, later tile capping. No retaining walls.
Reason for designation
Group value with Capel Soar.
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