Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lock House
Tonna, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Neath Canal Depot, Tonna, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 25 February 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 February 2000
- Locality
- Neath Canal Depot
- Community
- Tonna
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67433, -3.78065
- Cadw reference
- 22867
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 S side of the Neath Canal facing the lock. The house backs on to and stands at the foot of Lock Hill on the N side of Henfaes Road.
History
The Neath Canal was begun in 1791 and opened in 1794. Traffic ceased in 1921. The house was probably built in the last decade of the C18 and is first shown on the Llantwit-juxta-Neath Tithe map of 1846, where it is shown as a lock-keeper's house. In the third quarter of the C19 it was extended to create a double-depth plan, the arrangement shown on the 1870s Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A 2-storey, double-depth house with roughcast walls painted white and late C19 plate glass sash windows, slate roofs and roughcast end stacks. The twin-gabled main entrance is on the W side facing the bottom of the steep track from the village. It has a central boarded door with overlight and windows lower L and R. Facing the canal the house is 2-window. The opposite S wall has a single window in each storey. The rear faces a yard on the E side has a half-lit door to the L and added low gabled porch to the R with boarded door and a central replaced window to the centre. The upper storey has 2 sash windows.
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
- Stable at Neath Canal DepotTransportunder 1 mi
- Lock and overbridge at Neath Canal DepotTransportunder 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.