Aberbechan Bridge (partly in Newtown & Llanllwchaiarn community) is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 July 1949. Bridge.
Aberbechan Bridge (partly in Newtown & Llanllwchaiarn community)
- WRENN ID
- rooted-groin-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1949
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Aberbechan Bridge (partly in Newtown & Llanllwchaiarn community), Llandyssil
- OS grid reference
- SO 135 938
- Coordinates
- 52.536, -3.27531
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Aberbechan Bridge is a tall semi-circular single arch bridge featuring dressed stone voussoirs and high keystones that are set forward. The bridge has a snecked masonry facing with an impost band. At each end, there are curved returns with pilasters. The deck includes a chamfered string course, which supports a parapet made of dressed stone that has a roughed facing and margin drafting.
Local climate
Aberbechan Bridge (partly in Newtown & Llanllwchaiarn community) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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