Pontrhydyfen Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 March 2000. Viaduct.

Pontrhydyfen Viaduct

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
21 March 2000
Type
Viaduct
Address
Pontrhydyfen Viaduct, Cwmavon
OS grid reference
SS 792 941
Coordinates
51.63298, -3.74545
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pontrhydyfen Viaduct is a ten-arch railway viaduct built of red brick, which curves slightly towards the northwest. It features tall round arches supported by narrow splayed piers, with the arches made up of six rows of headers laid on edge. There are short abutments at both ends of the structure. A blue brick string course runs along the top, and the red brick parapets include corbelled refuges that rise from the spandrels of the arches. The coping is primarily made of blue bricks set on end, although some areas have been replaced with concrete. The flat deck has been converted into a path, and the refuges have been infilled with blue brick topped with concrete coping. At each end of the deck, there are pairs of short piers that mark the abutments, and these, along with the spaces in between, are capped with massive rock-faced stones.

Local climate

Pontrhydyfen Viaduct sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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