Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
NW portal of Conwy Railway Tunnel
Conwy, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Mount Pleasant, Conwy, designated on 30 December 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 30 December 2005
- Locality
- Mount Pleasant
- Town
- Conwy
- Community
- Conwy
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.28110, -3.83247
- Cadw reference
- 87448
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 94 Beaumaris (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In a deep cutting directly beneath the NW side of Mount Pleasant.
History
On the Chester & Holyhead Railway, and built in 1845. Its chief engineer was Robert Stephenson, and contractor for the Conwy section was John Evans. Conwy tunnel was the site where the ceremonial first sod of the railway was cut on St David's Day, 1845. This section of the line opened in 1846.
Exterior
The portal is of snecked rock-faced stone across a deep cutting, with flanking battered buttresses. Above the round arch is a corbel table and parapet. The parapet has a saddleback coping of tooled stone. It is splayed to the S bank where a rectangular terminal pier has a rock-faced cap (partly overgrown at the time of survey). A similar pier is on the N side (but obscured by vegetation at the time of inspection).
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a tunnel portal of definite mid C19 architectural character, one of a number of items contributing to the overall historical integrity of this section of the former Chester & Holyhead Railway.
Nearby in the register
- BodhyfrydDomesticunder 1 mi
- WoodvilleNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 6 Newboro TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 5 Newboro TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.