Railway bridge over Llanrwst Road, including attached embankment wall to E is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 October 1981. Bridge.
Railway bridge over Llanrwst Road, including attached embankment wall to E
- WRENN ID
- western-pavement-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1981
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Railway bridge over Llanrwst Road, including attached embankment wall to E, Pont Pensarn
- OS grid reference
- SH 783 773
- Coordinates
- 53.27955, -3.82645
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The railway bridge over Llanrwst Road, built in the 19th century, features coursed red-sandstone piers on its south side, supporting a shallow segmental-pointed rusticated arch. Above the piers, the ashlar parapet is castellated and includes a central blank shield. On the north side, the abutments are made of later rock-faced stone, and the bridge deck is supported by 20th-century concrete beams.
To the southeast, there is a retaining wall above the River Gyffin, which extends approximately 120 meters between the bridge and a tubular bridge. This wall consists of four sections and two facets. The first section on the west is constructed of battered snecked rock-faced stone and features three heraldic shields along with a moulded stone cornice leading to an ashlar parapet. This section connects to a square turret at the west end of the second section. The turret is made of snecked rock-faced stone and has an ashlar embattled parapet similar to that of the bridge. The second section of the wall is built of rubble-stone on a stepped plinth, includes a moulded cornice to an ashlar parapet, and incorporates two additional shields. This section ends with a taller polygonal turret of snecked rock-faced stone and an embattled parapet. The third section mirrors the second in design. At the west end of the fourth section, there is a half-round rock-faced turret topped with a shallow ashlar conical cap. The fourth section is made of coursed rock-faced stone and connects to the tubular bridge.
Local climate
Railway bridge over Llanrwst Road, including attached embankment wall to E sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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