Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
81343
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/07/2003
Date of Amendment
23/07/2003
Name of Property
Railway viaduct over Afon Ebwy
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Rogerstone
Town
Newport
Locality
Bassaleg
Easting
327821
Northing
187205
Street Side
Location
Crossing the Afon Ebwy from E to W on the NE side of Bassaleg.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Railway viaduct built for Rumney Railway Co. in 1826 probably to design of George Overton, the company's surveyor, and the largest surviving early railway viaduct in South Wales, and therefore one of the largest built anywhere before the era of the locomotive. Widened in 1863 for the Brecon & Merthyr Railway.
Exterior
Railway viaduct, squared rubble stone with 4 round arches,, the arches with cut stone voussoirs. Three piers with two-step triangular cutwaters, the top step chamfered back to a flat pier also stepped in. Thin string course between piers under high parapet, the coping and top level possibly cut down. Outer big splayed abutments have similar raised piers. Much iron strapping.
Interior
Reason for designation
Graded II* as one of the most important early railway bridges in Wales.
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