New Bridge is a Grade II* listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 July 1963. House.
New Bridge
- WRENN ID
- sunken-cobalt-bittern
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- New Bridge, Merthyr Mawr
- OS grid reference
- SS 891 779
- Coordinates
- 51.48973, -3.59792
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
New Bridge is a single-carriageway road bridge constructed of coursed, hammer-dressed stone, with a ramp rising to the center. The abutments are wider than the deck and feature rounded angles. The bridge has three segmental arches, each with projecting keystones. V-shaped cutwaters are stepped up to a projecting band at the base of a low parapet. The parapet has flat coping, part of which has been renewed in reconstituted stone, and it ends with square piers on the left bank, which have later stone walls attached. Similar later stone walls are also found on the right bank. On the upstream side, there is a tablet set into the parapet that reads: "This Bridge was built and finished at the expence [sic] of the Right Honourable Sir John Nicholl under the inspection of William [Whirlington?] Country Surveyor by Morgan Thomas of Laleston AD 1827."
Local climate
New Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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