Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
White Gate Road Bridge and Aqueduct
Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pengarnddu, Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, designated on 11 March 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 11 March 2003
- Locality
- Pengarnddu
- Community
- Pant
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77032, -3.34800
- Cadw reference
- 80963
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 231 Merthyr Tydfil (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Some 100m N of the reservoir on the N side of the Heads of the Valley road and just W of the grid sub station at Pengarnddu.
History
Built c1864 to take a road and watercourse on the Dowlais Free Drainage System over the Newport branch of the Brecon and Merthyr Railway. Arch repaired in 1952.
Exterior
Road bridge and aqueduct, rock-faced grey stone, single elliptical arch of 7.3m span with stone voussoirs between battered piers. Raised band above parapet stepped forward over piers. Rock-faced stone coping. Aqueduct approximately 1m wide is behind S parapet and roadway, some 3m wide, has sloping brick parapets for one course at E to 12 courses at W.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare example of a combined road bridge and aqueduct, the latter on the historically important Dowlais Free Drainage System.
Nearby in the register
- Lower RowDomesticunder 1 mi
- The War Memorial, screen walls and surrounding railingsCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Aqueduct on Dowlais Free Drainage SystemWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Industrial building at former Ivor WorksIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.