Railway Bridge over Sardis Road is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 February 2001. Bridge.

Railway Bridge over Sardis Road

WRENN ID
vacant-casement-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Constituency
Pontypridd MP: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 February 2001
Type
Bridge
Address
Railway Bridge over Sardis Road, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff
OS grid reference
ST 070 900
Coordinates
51.60119, -3.34337
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Railway Bridge over Sardis Road is a single-span structure built in three phases. The earliest phase, designed by Brunel, is located on the eastern side and features coursed rock-faced stone with an elliptical arch and a tooled impost band, characteristic of Brunel's style. A low parapet with railings was added later. The splayed abutments support an embankment and have flat copings. The northern side of the wall has been raised at a later date. The narrower second phase, which is attached at a slight angle to the western side of the bridge, is constructed similarly to the earlier phase using the same materials. This second phase is flanked by high embankment walls, on which a third phase has been added, consisting of a simple late 19th-century plate girder bridge.

Local climate

Railway Bridge over Sardis Road sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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