Pont y Bettws is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 April 1998. Bridge.
Pont y Bettws
- WRENN ID
- errant-turret-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1998
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Pont y Bettws, Bettws Gwerfil Goch, Betws Gwerfil Goch
- OS grid reference
- SJ 029 464
- Coordinates
- 53.00655, -3.44776
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pont y Bettws is a bridge built of local ashlar stone, featuring a rubble stone parapet and a datestone located below the coping on the road-facing side of the main span. The bridge has three semicircular arches: the central arch spans 13.1 meters and rises 5.7 meters above the river, while each flood arch spans 10.4 meters and rises approximately 5 meters above the water. Each arch is made with 0.6 meter voussoirs and includes a regulating course, resting on water piers. The flush parallel spandrels extend to flush shale-coped and iron cramped parapets, allowing for a carriageway width of 5.5 meters, with the total width of the bridge measuring 6.3 meters. The abutments are slightly outset and flare outward, ending in square stone piers. Pilasters rise from each water pier between the spans.
Local climate
Pont y Bettws sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% 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 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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