Boughrood Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 December 1995. Church.
Boughrood Bridge
- WRENN ID
- fossil-hammer-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1995
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Boughrood Bridge, Llyswen, Bronllys
- OS grid reference
- SO 129 384
- Coordinates
- 52.03746, -3.27015
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Boughrood Bridge is a toll bridge built around 1838 to 1842 by the Maesllwych Estate at a cost of £5,890. It was constructed to improve the transport of coal, coke, and lime from Radnorshire to Brecon, replacing an earlier ford and ferry. Tolls were stopped in 1934.
The bridge is made of rock-faced squared rubble and features four equal span segmental arches, each measuring 75 centimeters, which spring from cutwaters with keeled tops. These arches rise as pilasters to the level of the parapet. There is a plat band at the base of the parapet and flush dowelled copings. At each end of the bridge, there is a low flood arch. The western end of the bridge was rebuilt later and includes weep pipes. On the northern parapet, there are three tall cast iron lamp standards from the 20th century made by Sugg. The bridge carries the road at the same level.
The bridge crosses into Boughrood parish in Radnorshire, where a Gothic style toll house was built in 1843. It is noted for being a well-built and preserved 19th-century road bridge constructed by a private estate.
Local climate
Boughrood Bridge 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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