Bridge, Dowall Burn, Shore Road, Cove is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 May 1993. Bridge.

Bridge, Dowall Burn, Shore Road, Cove

WRENN ID
late-render-dust
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 May 1993
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NS 221 827
Coordinates
56.00427, -4.85396
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The bridge at Dowall Burn on Shore Road in Cove was designed by Alexander Thomson in 1874. It is a single span bridge that carries Rosneath Road over the mouth of Dowall Burn. The structure is built of whinstone with harl-pointing and features stugged ashlar dressings. The plain parapet wall is made of whinstone and has ashlar saddleback coping, which curves to a large consoled drum terminal on the south shore-side parapet, topped with a raised circular geometric cap. The bridge has a semicircular arch, with voussoirs outlined in whinstone and sandstone, and is flanked by narrow weep-holes and decorative niches with sandstone margins. Shallow buttresses support wide wing walls, and the soffit is made of harled rubble. On the north side of the road, there is a plain whinstone parapet wall that continues from the boundary wall, featuring ashlar slab coping.

Local climate

Bridge, Dowall Burn, Shore Road, Cove sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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