Canal and former Hay Railway bridge to SW of Toll Gate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Bridge.
Canal and former Hay Railway bridge to SW of Toll Gate Cottage
- WRENN ID
- high-solder-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1976
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Canal and former Hay Railway bridge to SW of Toll Gate Cottage, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 051 280
- Coordinates
- 51.94245, -3.38071
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a stone bridge featuring two arches, located southwest of Toll Gate Cottage. The bridge has a wide southern elliptical arch that spans the canal, with a towpath situated beneath the southern side of this arch. The smaller northern arch crosses the former track of the Hay Railway. The bridge is adorned with a curved parapet that has simple stone coping, which continues over the northern arch. On the eastern side, the bridge is numbered 165. The inner parapet wall on the western side displays an iron plate from the Great Western Railway, indicating weight limits and addressed to "drivers and owners of locomotives or other persons in charge of the same."
Local climate
Canal and former Hay Railway bridge to SW of Toll Gate Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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