Cardiff Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 May 2002. Bridge.
Cardiff Bridge
- WRENN ID
- cold-pewter-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 May 2002
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Cardiff Bridge, City Centre, Riverside
- OS grid reference
- ST 177 764
- Coordinates
- 51.48103, -3.18572
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Cardiff Bridge is a structure featuring reinforced concrete arches supported by rusticated stone piers, adorned with Portland stone balustrades and decorative elements. It has four elliptically faced arches with projecting cutwaters that rise as piers, supporting a deep cornice and an open balustrade with five panels for each arch. Atop each pier stands a square obelisk of Cenotaph type, which once held bronze flambeaux. There is a cast bronze inscription at the west end stating, 'Cardiff Bridge opened 1931. George Whitaker City Engineer. J. M. Beresford Contractor'. The soffit of each arch is ribbed reinforced concrete situated above the stonework, which shows clear signs of widening from its original design of 1859. This bridge is located in the Castle Community.
Local climate
Cardiff Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
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