Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lock keeper's and toll collector's office at SW end of Aberdulais Aqueduct
Blaenhonddan, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Aberdulais, Neath, Blaenhonddan, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 29 January 1980.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1980
- Locality
- Aberdulais
- Town
- Neath
- Community
- Blaenhonddan
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67870, -3.77667
- Cadw reference
- 11837
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 247 Swansea (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the W bank of the Afon Nedd and on the S side of the Tennant Canal lock on the end of the Aberdulais Aqueduct.
History
Lock keeper's and toll collector's office on the only lock on the Tennant canal. Built c 1823 and said to be designed by William Kirkhouse, engineer of the Tennant Canal. 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 keeper's and toll collector's office, one storey, rubblestone with hipped slate roof and stone stack on SE end. NE elevation has two 12-pane sahes with brick surrounds. NW side has central metal door with small blocked window to right.
Interior
Not available for inspection.
Reason for designation
A prominent part of a group of canal structures at Aberdulais of special architectural and historic interest.
Nearby in the register
- Aberdulais Lock on Tennant CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Aberdulais Aqueduct (partly in Tonna community)Water Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Aberdulais Viaduct (partly in Tonna community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Aberdulais AqueductAqueductunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.