Bridge at Glynn, Main Road, Glynn, Larne, Co Antrim is a listed building in the Mid and East Antrim local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.

Bridge at Glynn, Main Road, Glynn, Larne, Co Antrim

WRENN ID
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Grade
Local Planning Authority
Mid and East Antrim
Constituency
East Antrim MP: Sammy Wilson (DUP)
Country
Northern Ireland
Irish grid reference
J 408 998
Coordinates
54.82691, -5.80862
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

This is an 18th-century bridge, likely built between 1720 and 1739, which has undergone minor alterations related to local industry but remains largely intact. It is a triple-arched masonry bridge carrying the main road over the Glynn River and a former mill stream. The bridge is constructed from random rubble basalt with dressed stone voussoirs forming the segmental arches. The piers are faced with rectangular cutwaters, with later low concrete plinths added to the base of each pier and cutwater. The bridge has a hump-backed profile and no pavements. The parapets are finished with rough stones laid flat and the western parapet sweeps around to a side road near the southernmost arch.

A later 19th-century wall, built of rubble, abuts two of the northern cutwaters, enclosing the mill stream, which is diverted from the river upstream and enters a segmental rubble archway below an adjacent house before flowing to the sea. A modern metal services pipe is attached to the eastern face of the bridge with steel brackets.

The bridge is located in the village of Glynn, close to the coast, with mature trees lining the south banks and house gardens along the north banks. It was shown on an Ordnance Survey map of 1832 and described in 1834 as "very old but in tolerable repair." Its features demonstrate industrial archaeological interest.

Local climate

Bridge at Glynn, Main Road, Glynn, Larne, Co Antrim sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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