Canal Aqueduct over Afon Twrch, including weir is a Grade II* listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 December 2001. Aqueduct.

Canal Aqueduct over Afon Twrch, including weir

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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Country
Wales
Date first listed
4 December 2001
Type
Aqueduct
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Canal aqueduct of 21 m span, 9 m broad, squared rubble stone with 3 broad low arches, each of 7m span, 2.7 m height, the arch soffits and voussoirs rendered over. String course under deep walling to canal sides and later C19 rock-faced stone coping. Downstream side has 2 small triangular cutwaters carried up as triangular piers with 2 offsets. Upstream side has been reinforced in C19 with 2 big stepped rounded stone piers covering earlier cutwaters. This side has a concrete spillway in centre, and parapet top courses in red brick. Under E abutment is circular tunnel for the tailrace of a former mill, with stone voussoirs to entries. Canal channel 3.35 m wide and 1.25 m deep, has tow-path on S side, canal bed concreted in restoration, canal sides rubble stone, probably rebuilt in 1993-4. There is a cast-iron mounting for a small emptying sluice on the N side and the broad concrete overflow to centre has slots for sluice gates each side.

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