Pont ar Dawe (partly in Pontardawe community) is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 October 1979. Road bridge.

Pont ar Dawe (partly in Pontardawe community)

WRENN ID
long-pilaster-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 October 1979
Type
Road bridge
Address
Pont ar Dawe (partly in Pontardawe community), Swansea, Cilybebyll
OS grid reference
SN 724 037
Coordinates
51.71753, -3.84728
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pont ar Dawe is a road bridge made of rubble stone, featuring a broad single arch that spans 26 meters. The arch is constructed with thin stone voussoirs and has thin stones on the original spandrels and crown on the south side. The abutments on either side of the bridge have battered faces. In the late 19th century, the bridge was widened using rock-faced squared sandstone and cut stone voussoirs. The parapets on both sides were also added in the late 19th century, featuring rock-faced chamfered coping stones with tooled edges. At the ends of the parapets, there are raised piers topped with ridge-back copings.

Local climate

Pont ar Dawe (partly in Pontardawe community) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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