Road Bridge over River Wye is a Grade I listed building in the local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 March 1975. A 1816 Bridge.
Road Bridge over River Wye
- WRENN ID
- gentle-spindle-wren
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1975
- Type
- Bridge
- Period
- 1816
- Address
- Road Bridge over River Wye, Chepstow, Monmouthshire
- OS grid reference
- ST 536 943
- Coordinates
- 51.64611, -2.67185
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Road Bridge over the River Wye is a Grade I listed iron road bridge. It features a graceful design with five spans: two measuring 10 meters, two at 21 meters, and a central span of 34 meters. The carriageway is 3 meters wide, flanked by 1-meter footways. The bridge is constructed with cast metal arches supported by struts that are 5 deep, all braced together on high, long, and narrow piers made of coursed roughly dressed sandstone. The parapet consists of closely set slender open railings that include decorative scrollwork panels, which display the date "Anno Domini 1816" along with the names "Monmouth" and "Gloucester." The scrollwork also supports lamps. The abutments are made of ashlar, featuring bands at both the road and pier levels.
Local climate
Road Bridge over River Wye receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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