Footbridge at Cogan's Station is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 January 1993. Footbridge.
Footbridge at Cogan's Station
- WRENN ID
- guardian-rubblework-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1993
- Type
- Footbridge
- Address
- Footbridge at Cogan's Station, Penarth
- OS grid reference
- ST 174 726
- Coordinates
- 51.44657, -3.18883
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The footbridge at Cogan's Station is a Grade II listed structure featuring square cast-iron balusters topped with ball finials, marked with foundry plates from 'George Smith & Co, Glasgow'. The bridge is supported by wrought iron lattice girder rails for both the stairs and the bridge itself, along with a cast iron handrail.
The steps are designed with wooden treads and cast-iron risers that include pierced quatrefoils. At the turn of the stairs, there is a half landing supported by cast-iron Corinthian columns in the Italianate quattrocento style, which stand on fluted plinths and are reinforced with pierced cast-iron angle bracing. The bridge has wooden decking, and the rails are further strengthened by five bulbous braces that pass underneath the decking. Additionally, there are two modern lamps located on the north side of the bridge.
Local climate
Footbridge at Cogan's Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% 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 17 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings