West Wellbank Aqueduct, Murroes is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 December 1991. Aqueduct.
West Wellbank Aqueduct, Murroes
- WRENN ID
- high-mortar-merlin
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1991
- Type
- Aqueduct
- OS grid reference
- NO 460 377
- Coordinates
- 56.52849, -2.87931
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Wellbank Aqueduct, built in 1848 by engineer James Leslie, carries an enclosed duct over a stream. The structure features lightly stugged rubble masonry with ashlar dressings and an intrados, topped with bull-faced coping stones. It has two segmental arches and an embankment to the south, supported by a rubble drystone wall.
Local climate
West Wellbank Aqueduct, Murroes receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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