Mains Bridge, Glamis Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1980. Bridge.

Mains Bridge, Glamis Castle

WRENN ID
graven-eave-wren
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 January 1980
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NO 389 478
Coordinates
56.61874, -2.9969
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Mains Bridge at Glamis Castle is a small bridge built in the mid to later 19th century. It features a single segmentally-arched design that spans Glamis Burn. The bridge is constructed from squared and snecked dressed rubble, with rusticated piers and rusticated voussoirs. The approaches to the bridge are battlemented, and it has moulded ashlar coping.

Local climate

Mains Bridge, Glamis Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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