Canal Bridge on Roadway to Bridge Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 February 1995. Bridge.
Canal Bridge on Roadway to Bridge Farm
- WRENN ID
- sharp-cobalt-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1995
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Canal Bridge on Roadway to Bridge Farm, Varchoel, Guilsfield
- OS grid reference
- SJ 236 131
- Coordinates
- 52.71083, -3.13211
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Canal Bridge No 4 on the roadway to Bridge Farm is a bridge on the Guilsfield Branch of the Montgomeryshire Canal, built between 1794 and 1797. It features brick arch and abutments, with sandstone copings. The bridge has a parabolic arch made of 13-inch brick, and the abutments are splayed at both ends, ending in 18-inch brick piers. The parapet rises at an angle along the abutments and flattens over the bridge, topped with a flush square stone coping.
Local climate
Canal Bridge on Roadway to Bridge Farm receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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