Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Talybont Railway Station
Talybont-on-Usk, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Talybont on Usk, Powys, designated on 17 December 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 17 December 1998
- Locality
- Talybont on Usk
- Community
- Talybont-on-Usk
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.89902, -3.28129
- Cadw reference
- 21128
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
NE of Talybont village, on the road which joins the main Brecon Abergavenny Road, just S of the River Usk.
History
Part of the Brecon and Merthyr Railway constructed 1860s, the line promoted by Brecon bankers and the de Winton family of industrialists, with the aim of transporting coal and iron from the industrial valleys. First section between Brecon and Pant near Dowlais opened 1863, later extended to Dowlais; branch line to Merthyr from Pontsticill Junction following Taf Fechan River opened 1868. Engineer for Brecon/Pant stretch Henry Conybeare and for Pontsticill to Merthyr Alexander Sutherland. The engineering achievement of this line is described by Barrie as "the famous Seven Mile Bank, constructed throughout on a shelf cut into the hillside and falling towards the Usk for the first half-mile at 1 in 68 and then for 61/2 miles at 1 in 38 so that southbound trains have to overcome a rise of 925 feet in seven miles". Early photograph of station shows single storey flat roofed wing with water tank on top. Railway closed 1960s. Station now converted into an outdoor pursuits centre.
Exterior
Railway station comprising a 2 storey house to right, with small lower wing right, and former single storey wing left raised to include an attic storey. Of coursed, occasionally snecked rockfaced stone with rockfaced dressings - large quoins, diamond-shaped voussoirs, lintel stones; Welsh slate roof with end and ridge grouped polygonal stacks, overhanging eaves and decorative verges; mansard roofs to wings. Main frontage has 3 bay range of horned sashes with bracketed sills; windows are paired at centre of first floor and either side of former entrance bay which projects slightly, the former round-headed doorway now altered to a window. Stepped back to left the former wing with very steep pitched gabled porch, deep overhanging swept eaves with decorative bargeboards, round-headed doorway and small horned sashes to side; range of smaller sashes to side. Square headed side entrance. Dismantled railway runs to rear.
Interior
Interior converted to hostel accommodation.
Reason for designation
Included notwithstanding conversion as the best preserved building of this mid C19 railway.
Nearby in the register
- Barn range at Maes MawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Gwynne Holford Monument in the churchyard to SW of Church of St FfraedCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Maes MawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St FfraedReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.