Pont Sarn-Ddu (also known as 'Roman Bridge') is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 March 1953. Bridge.
Pont Sarn-Ddu (also known as 'Roman Bridge')
- WRENN ID
- worn-hammer-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1953
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Pont Sarn-Ddu (also known as 'Roman Bridge'), Roman Bridge Railway Station, Dolwyddelan, Conwy
- OS grid reference
- SH 711 515
- Coordinates
- 53.04599, -3.92398
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pont Sarn-Ddu, also known as the 'Roman Bridge', is a clapper bridge with eight spans, measuring approximately 18 meters in length. It features long parapetted approaches of a similar length that rise slightly at both ends of the bridge. The structure is supported by rectangular rubble piers, which are rounded upstream to act as cutwaters, and has massive lintels made of slatestone. The downstream piers have slatestone projections on their northern and southern inner faces, positioned halfway up, which may have originally supported timber struts. The two northernmost piers and their abutments seem to have been rebuilt. Above the bridge, there are modern concrete kerbs and low slatestone copings for a steel balustrade, which includes a simple datestone from 1955. The rubble approach parapets are topped with roughly-dressed slate-slab copings and are slightly splayed at the southern end.
Local climate
Pont Sarn-Ddu (also known as 'Roman Bridge') sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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