Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
23073
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/03/2000
Date of Amendment
29/03/2000
Name of Property
Bridge over Tennant Canal E of Cwrt y Bettws Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Coedffranc
Town
Locality
Tennant Canal
Easting
272560
Northing
195523
Street Side
Location
Spanning the Tennant Canal E of Cwrt y Bettws Farm and beside the Tennant Canal pumping station.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The Tennant Canal was built 1820-4, engineered by William Kirkhouse. The head of the canal was at Aberdulais, where it joins the Neath Canal, and ended at Port Tennant on the E side of the River Tawe in Swansea. Traffic was carried on the canal until the 1930s. The bridge was built in the 3rd quarter of the C19 and first shown on the 1877 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A single-carriageway, single-span bridge of rubble stone with tooled voussoirs to the segmental arch. The abutments and integral parapet curve outwards. The parapet retains some copper slag copings on the N side but is mostly renewed. The parapet terminates in brick on the NE side, copper slag courses to the SE, and brick and slag to the NW. The hump-backed deck is laid with concrete.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with other listed items associated with the Tennant Canal.
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