Wye Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 June 1952. Court house, dwelling.
Wye Bridge
- WRENN ID
- old-footing-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1952
- Type
- Court house, dwelling
- Address
- Wye Bridge, Partly in the Community of Llanelwedd, Builth
- OS grid reference
- SO 042 511
- Coordinates
- 52.15014, -3.40067
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Wye Bridge is a local grey stone structure built in 1779. It features coursed squared stone with a snecked parapet and has six broad arches supported by voussoirs and keystones. The bridge has rounded cutwaters on the west side and pointed cutwaters on the east. The parapet includes central refuges, and the piers display vertical joints that indicate where the bridge was widened, with darker stone visible on the upstream side.
An inscription carved on a refuge in the interior parapet states that the bridge was erected at the expense of the counties of Brecon and Radnor by James Parry of Hay in 1779. It notes that the original stone, after serving its purpose for a hundred years, became completely decayed and was replaced by new stone provided by the inhabitants of Builth in 1879. The bridge was further widened and strengthened by the same counties in 1925.
Local climate
Wye Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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