New Road Overbridge is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 April 2016. Bridge.
New Road Overbridge
- WRENN ID
- frozen-rotunda-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 April 2016
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- New Road Overbridge, Skewen, Coedffranc
- OS grid reference
- SS 720 973
- Coordinates
- 51.66048, -3.85123
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The New Road Overbridge is a railway bridge featuring a single span and a skewed design. It is made from coursed and squared sandstone, with carefully shaped voussoirs. The parapet consists of uneven courses that are built on a continuous cornice. The bridge has plain sloping wingwalls on both sides, with coping that continues with the parapet cornice.
Local climate
New Road Overbridge 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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