Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Operator's Cabin to Sliding Bridge
Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Barry Docks, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, designated on 13 February 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 13 February 1996
- Locality
- Barry Docks
- Community
- Barry
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.39655, -3.26245
- Cadw reference
- 16837
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)
- 1858 · 20. Bridgewater. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 263 Cardiff (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 110. Cardiff & Mouth of the Severn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
To SE of bridge.
Exterior
Operators hut probably contemporary with bridge (1889). In form of standard pattern wooden Barry Railway signal box (believed to be last of its type). Aligned parallel to bridge with gables to E and W. Wooden construction with horizontal boarding, slate roof, but brick basement. Decorative bargeboards, and some panelling to gable ends. E end has wooden steps up to entrance doorway; three windows to each side at operator's level; balconies to 3 sides on iron brackets, metal rails. Ground floor doorway to S, and steps down to basement doorway below this. Attached to box (W), is small wooden hut with vertical boarding, and hipped slate roof, mechanism (hydraulic cylinder?) to interior.
Interior
Inside the operator's cabin is the original lever frame mechanism of 7 levers, with further adjacent lever.
Reason for designation
Included as integral part of sliding bridge, and believed to be last surviving example of wooden Barry Railway signal box.
Nearby in the register
- Sliding Bridge at N entrance to BasinTransportunder 1 mi
- Walls of Dock Basin (Also known as No 3 Basin)Transportunder 1 mi
- Lifeboat HouseMaritimeunder 1 mi
- SlipwayMaritimeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.