Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stable at Neath Canal Depot
Tonna, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 25 February 2000
- Locality
- Neath Canal Depot
- Community
- Tonna
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67430, -3.78097
- Cadw reference
- 22865
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the E side and in the garden of Lock House on the S side of the Neath Canal.
History
The Neath Canal was begun in 1791 and opened in 1794. Traffic ceased in 1921. The stable was probably built in the late C18 in conjunction with Lock House and is shown on the Llantwit-juxta-Neath Tithe map of 1846. A wing was added to the building in the third quarter of the C19 and is first shown on the 1877 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
The main range is at right angles to the canal, with its S gable end built into the bank, and is built of whitewashed rubble stone and slate roof, which has skylights to the E slope. The lower gable end has a boarded loft door. Facing a yard on the W side are 2 segmental-headed doorways, a loft opening below the eaves now infilled with brick incorporating pigeon holes, and a lower gabled wing at right angles towards the rear built into the bank. This wing has 4 doorways under lintels with replaced doors facing the yard on its N side. On the E side is an added lean-to at the N end, a boarded opening upper L of centre and a doorway lower L under a wooden lintel. In the S gable end is a loft doorway with wooden lintel and replaced door opening to the higher ground on this side.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its industrial archaeological interest as an integral component of the most complete depot of any of the South Wales canals.
Nearby in the register
- Lock and overbridge at Neath Canal DepotTransportunder 1 mi
- Lock HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wood seasoning shed & saw pit at Neath Canal DepotTransportunder 1 mi
- Workshop, store and smithy at Neath Canal DepotTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.