Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Railway viaduct over Factory Road
Bargoed, Caerphilly, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bargoed, Caerphilly, designated on 29 April 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 April 2002
- Locality
- Bargoed
- Town
- Bargoed
- Community
- Bargoed
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.69491, -3.23140
- Cadw reference
- 26492
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)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1906 · 249 Newport (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Spanning the valley of Nant Bargoed approximately 300m N of Bargoed station.
History
An integral component of the original Rhymney Railway which was begun in 1854 and opened in 1858 from Rhymney, via Walnut Tree Junction, to Cardiff.
Exterior
A curved 7-bay viaduct of snecked rock-faced stone. Piers have wide splays to round arches with impost bands. The 3 piers to the N end, and the N abutment, have tie rods to the spandrels, with square plates. The abutments have shallow buttresses. A projecting band is below the parapet, which has rock-faced copings and terminates with simple rectangular piers slightly splayed out. The deck is laid with a double track.
Reason for designation
Listed as a visually imposing and fine work of C19 civil engineering.
Nearby in the register
- Bargoed & Gilfach war memorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Aberbargoed war memorial gatesCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Hanbury Road Baptist Chapel and Schoolrooms, including gates and gatepiersReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Police Court and Police Station, including forecourt walls, gates & railingsCivilunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.