Bridge over Tennant Canal E of Cwrt y Bettws Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 March 2000. Bridge.
Bridge over Tennant Canal E of Cwrt y Bettws Farm
- WRENN ID
- shifting-roof-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 March 2000
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Bridge over Tennant Canal E of Cwrt y Bettws Farm, Coedffranc
- OS grid reference
- SS 725 955
- Coordinates
- 51.64403, -3.84322
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a single-carriageway, single-span bridge located over the Tennant Canal to the east of Cwrt y Bettws Farm. It is constructed of rubble stone with tooled voussoirs forming a segmental arch. The abutments and the integral parapet curve outward. The parapet still has some copper slag copings on the north side, although most of it has been renewed. The parapet ends in brick on the northeast side, with copper slag courses on the southeast, and a combination of brick and slag on the northwest. The hump-backed deck is finished with concrete.
Local climate
Bridge over Tennant Canal E of Cwrt y Bettws Farm 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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