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
11836
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/01/1980
Date of Amendment
26/11/2003
Name of Property
Aberdulais Lock on Tennant Canal
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Blaenhonddan
Town
Neath
Locality
Aberdulais
Easting
277256
Northing
199275
Street Side
Location
On the W bank of the Afon Nedd between the Tennant Canal and the Aberdulais Aqueduct.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Canal lock, c 1823, the only one on the main line of the Tennant canal. Engineered by William Kirkhouse, the Tennant canal was begun in 1821 and the aqueduct across the River Neath at Aberdulais was begun in 1823. The canal opened in 1824 from the Neath Canal at Aberdulais to Port Tennant, Swansea.
Exterior
Lock chamber with parallel walls of coursed stone. Wooden lower lock gates survive intact. Rebate of upper lock gates remains but is replaced by a wall.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as the only lock on the main line of the Tennant Canal and as part of a group of canal structures at Aberdulais of special architectural and historic interest.
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