Footbridge over lake at Machen House is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 October 1990. Footbridge.

Footbridge over lake at Machen House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Constituency
Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
4 October 1990
Type
Footbridge
Address
Footbridge over lake at Machen House, Lower Machen, Graig
OS grid reference
ST 226 880
Coordinates
51.58582, -3.11746
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The footbridge over the lake at Machen House is a Grade II listed structure. It is made of rock-faced rubble stone with squared stone dressings and features three arches that are slightly humped, providing a narrow footway. The arches are segmental-curved and shallow, constructed with cut stone voussoirs and separated by small triangular-section shafts on corbels that extend up to the low parapets. The parapets are splayed out at the ends, with copings made of tooled stone that terminate at piers topped with small pyramidal caps. Pyramidal caps are also present on the parapets above the dividing shafts.

Local climate

Footbridge over lake at Machen House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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