Llansamlet Railway Underbridge is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 April 2016. Bridge.
Llansamlet Railway Underbridge
- WRENN ID
- heavy-ledge-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 April 2016
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Llansamlet Railway Underbridge, Station Road
- OS grid reference
- SS 690 973
- Coordinates
- 51.65941, -3.89451
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Llansamlet Railway Underbridge is a railway bridge featuring a single span and made of masonry. It has projecting wingwalls and is constructed from coursed and squared rock-faced sandstone, with rusticated voussoirs. The bridge includes a low parapet that has been fitted with replaced coping and later metal railings. The wingwalls are plain and slope down to the south, while the north-east wingwall slopes down to a terminating pier.
Local climate
Llansamlet Railway Underbridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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