Bridge over Dock Feeder Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 August 1992. Bridge.

Bridge over Dock Feeder Canal

WRENN ID
dim-steeple-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 August 1992
Type
Bridge
Address
Bridge over Dock Feeder Canal, Junction Canal, Butetown
OS grid reference
ST 189 758
Coordinates
51.4754, -3.16811
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The bridge over the Dock Feeder Canal is a Grade II listed structure featuring heavy abutments made of rock-faced coursed brown stone, with a parapet constructed from slightly smaller blocks. At the decking level, there is a smooth dressed blocking course. The parapet returns at the corners of the bridge to create refuges, which are likely built from the parapet wall to the former approaches. The span of the bridge is slightly set back from the abutments, with buttresses located on the east and west sides of the southern abutment. The bridge has rounded rock-like coping stones on the span and refuges, while flat coping stones are used on the approaches. Currently, the bridge is accessed by steps instead of the original ramped approach, and it features modern brick decking. The canal is spanned by six parallel I-beams, which are connected by transverse tie rods. The flanges of the I-beams support shallow brick arches that hold the decking. Beneath the bridge on the northern side of the canal, there is later stone infill that blocks the towpath and supports the bridge.

Local climate

Bridge over Dock Feeder Canal 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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