Suspension Bridge, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Bridge.
Suspension Bridge, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- nether-balcony-wax
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1981
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NX 972 757
- Coordinates
- 55.06514, -3.61028
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Suspension Bridge in Dumfries, designed by John Willet of Aberdeen in 1875, is an iron footbridge with an approximate span of 200 feet. It features tall, distyle pylons made of slender Doric columns, which are connected by decorative and commemorative semi-elliptical lampholders, although the lamps are currently missing. The span of the bridge includes lattice balustrades, and the wide, splayed masonry approaches are complemented by iron railings topped with fleur de lys finials.
Local climate
Suspension Bridge, Dumfries sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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