Bridge No. 15, Baird Road, Ratho, Union Canal is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 March 1994. Bridge.

Bridge No. 15, Baird Road, Ratho, Union Canal

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 March 1994
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NT 139 708
Coordinates
55.9234, -3.37893
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Bridge No. 15 on Baird Road, Ratho, was designed by engineer Hugh Baird around 1820. It is constructed from coursed, squared, and stugged sandstone, featuring an ashlar string course and coping. The bridge has a single-span segmental arch with slightly battered abutments. The arch is made of ashlar voussoirs and includes a projecting keystone that is inscribed with '15', although this inscription is obscured by modern piping that runs along the west and east sides of the bridge. The structure is topped with a coped parapet.

Local climate

Bridge No. 15, Baird Road, Ratho, Union Canal 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 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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