Bridge Of Dun is a Grade A listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Bridge.

Bridge Of Dun

WRENN ID
sleeping-screen-dock
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 June 1971
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NO 662 584
Coordinates
56.71626, -2.55263
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Bridge of Dun is an A-listed structure featuring three wide segmental arches supported by free-standing quatrefoil columns in the Langley pattern, which rise from bullfaced cutwaters. The bridge is constructed of ashlar stone with droved voussoirs. It has long ramped approaches on either side, divided into three compartments, with the outermost compartment containing a segmental flood arch and the innermost featuring sunk double crosses with trefoil heads. At the top of the approaches are obelisks, while short quatrefoil spired pillars are located at the bottom, all made of pinned coursed rubble. An inscription on the southeast obelisk notes the construction dates: "This bridge was founded on the 7th June 1785 and finished on the 27th January 1787 by Alexander Stevens."

Local climate

Bridge Of Dun sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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