Velindre Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 April 2000. Viaduct.
Velindre Bridge
- WRENN ID
- cold-gargoyle-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 April 2000
- Type
- Viaduct
- OS grid reference
- SS 767 904
- Coordinates
- 51.59894, -3.78055
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Velindre Bridge is a four-bay viaduct built with round arches. The western side is constructed of rubble stone, while the eastern side features snecked stone. The three arches on the southern side span the River Afan, and the northern arch crosses a narrow lane. The arches on the western side have narrow dressed voussoirs and low triangular cutwaters that are stepped above. The bridge has rubble stone parapets, which are partially missing, and there is no string course. The abutments are slightly splayed. The southern abutment contains part of an infilled segmental arch, likely related to an earlier bridge. The eastern side is made of snecked rock-faced stone with matching voussoirs, a string course, and partially missing parapets, also featuring low stepped cutwaters. The bridge has a flat deck that is now used as a foot and cycle path.
Local climate
Velindre Bridge 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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