Jaw Bridge, 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.
Jaw Bridge, Union Canal
- WRENN ID
- iron-transept-raven
- 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 162 701
- Coordinates
- 55.9171, -3.3421
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Jaw Bridge is a single span bridge on the Union Canal, designed by engineer Hugh Baird around 1820. It features a segmental arch made of coursed, squared rubble, with stugged sandstone voussoirs. The exposed keystone has the number '13' inscribed on it. There is an ashlar string course, plain railings over the bridge itself, and a coped parapet wall along the banks.
Local climate
Jaw Bridge, Union Canal 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 78% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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