Pont-y-Capel is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 November 1996. Bridge.
Pont-y-Capel
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-forge-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1996
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Pont-y-Capel, Capel Curig, Conwy
- OS grid reference
- SH 718 580
- Coordinates
- 53.10402, -3.91591
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pont-y-Capel is a road bridge built in the late 18th century or early 19th century, connecting Capel Curig to Plas-y-Brenin, which was formerly the Royal Hotel and may have been built around the same time. This single-span bridge is constructed from rubble and features tapering buttresses on either side of a wide segmental arch. The arch is made up of roughly-dressed voussoirs beneath a dressed arch-ring, with a projecting keystone. A plain string course runs along the bridge, topped by a dressed slatestone capping on the flat rubble parapet.
Local climate
Pont-y-Capel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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