Harrison Road Bridge, Union Canal, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 February 1993. Bridge.
Harrison Road Bridge, Union Canal, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- quiet-quartz-starling
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1993
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NT 236 718
- Coordinates
- 55.934, -3.22431
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Harrison Road Bridge is a single-span plate girder canal bridge built around 1885 over the Union Canal in Edinburgh. It features a panelled cast-iron parapet with panelled iron dividing piers. The soffit consists of four brick arches supported by wrought-iron tie rods. The abutments are made of squared and snecked sandstone rubble, topped with an ashlar band course and coping.
Local climate
Harrison Road Bridge, Union Canal, Edinburgh 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 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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