Bridge on main drive to Hensol Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 February 1993. House. 4 related planning applications.
Bridge on main drive to Hensol Castle
- WRENN ID
- silver-solder-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bridge on main drive to Hensol Castle, Pendoylan
- OS grid reference
- ST 050 792
- Coordinates
- 51.50391, -3.36989
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The bridge, built of coursed rubble stone, provides access on the main drive to Hensol Castle. It is a broad, four-arched structure with ramped approaches and part-balustraded parapets, giving it an ornamental appearance. The unusually high number of arches, and their substantial size, suggest a design intended for a large river rather than a small stream powering a mill. The original voussoirs of the arches remain, but the arches have been infilled and water is now directed through a pipe. The central section of the balustraded parapet has been partially rebuilt in cement, while the ends feature closed parapets with chamfered freestone piers. Gothic flying buttresses are located at the bridge’s main entrance, where it adjoins a sweeping boundary wall.
Local climate
Bridge on main drive to Hensol Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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