Kincardine Bridge is a Grade A listed building in the local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 2005. Bridge. 3 related planning applications.
Kincardine Bridge
- WRENN ID
- second-hinge-smoke
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 February 2005
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NS 925 871
- Coordinates
- 56.06521, -3.72718
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kincardine Bridge is a major road bridge designed by Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners in Westminster between 1930 and 1931, with architectural advice from James Miller. The bridge has a total length of 2,696 feet and features a series of shallow-arched spans. The central swing span measures 364 feet and originally could swivel, but it is now fixed shut.
On either side of the swing span, there are seven identical 100-foot steel cantilever spans, with the central 50-foot spans resting on girders that project 25 feet from the piers. Additionally, at the Kincardine end of the bridge, there are three steel spans measuring 62 feet 6 inches each. At the opposite end, the bridge includes nine 50-foot reinforced concrete spans and a piled viaduct that is 265 feet long, also made of reinforced concrete. A series of gantries spans the roadway, and above the center of the bridge, there is a control cabin. The original machinery is housed in a machine room located at the center pier.
Local climate
Kincardine Bridge 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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