Middle Gelvin Bridge, Gortnagross Road, Gortgarn TD, Dungiven, Co Londonderry is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Causeway Coast and Glens local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. Bridge.

Middle Gelvin Bridge, Gortnagross Road, Gortgarn TD, Dungiven, Co Londonderry

WRENN ID
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Grade
Record Only
Local Planning Authority
Causeway Coast and Glens
Constituency
East Londonderry MP: Mr Gregory Campbell (DUP)
Country
Northern Ireland
Type
Bridge
Irish grid reference
C 715 140
Coordinates
54.96907, -6.88338
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

A sturdy, pleasing segmental two-arch sandstone bridge, dating to the mid-19th century, crosses the Gelvin Burn on the Gortnagross Road, near Dungiven, County Londonderry. The bridge is set within a peaceful, undulating agricultural landscape.

The bridge is constructed of roughly squared and coursed sandstone, with horizontal tooling to the faces. Each arch spans 5½ metres, featuring well-formed voissoirs and springing from comparatively low supporting walls. The walls terminate upstream with quasi-pointed breakwaters and downstream with rounded, half-spherical caps. The stonework is repeated on the soffit of the vault. There are no string courses; the parapet walls, 25 metres long and with a 6-metre carriageway width, are returned slightly at each end on the upstream side. The parapets are strengthened by two tie rods per arch. They are finished with a hogsback coping in concrete. The bridge sits within a gently sloping agricultural landscape alongside the Gelvin Burn. The approach roads, particularly the northern road locally known as the "Crooked Brae", curve and bend, contributing to the overall charm of the setting.

A bridge crossing is indicated on an Ordnance Survey map dated 1832. The bridge is of industrial archaeological interest. Original construction probably occurred between 1780 and 1799. The bridge is owned by Central Government.

Local climate

Middle Gelvin Bridge, Gortnagross Road, Gortgarn TD, Dungiven, Co Londonderry sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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