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
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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

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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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