Belford Bridge, Belford Road is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 July 2009. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Belford Bridge, Belford Road
- WRENN ID
- tattered-window-lake
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 July 2009
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Belford Bridge, Belford Road, EH4 3DW
- OS grid reference
- NT 237 737
- Coordinates
- 55.95092, -3.22194
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Belford Bridge, built between 1885 and 1887 by Blyth and Cunningham Engineers, is a partially castellated bridge featuring Scots Baronial detailing. It has a large semicircular single span arch over the Water of Leith, with additional subsidiary blind arches on either side. The bridge is constructed of coursed random rubble, with some ashlar dressings on the subsidiary blind arches. The main arch displays various moulded and dentilled courses and is flanked by slightly advanced crenellated piers. There is a banded string course above the advanced piers, which features a double row of mock machiolation, and a carved relief panel above that bears the City of Edinburgh coat of arms. The bridge is topped with a crenellated parapet that has later copes over the central arch, along with a band course and further mock machiolation.
Local climate
Belford Bridge, Belford Road 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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