Regent Bridge, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 April 1966. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Regent Bridge, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tilted-newel-stoat
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1966
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NT 259 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95366, -3.18723
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Regent Bridge in Edinburgh, designed by Archibald Elliot with Robert Stevenson, was built between 1815 and 1819. This single semicircular-span bridge crosses Calton Road and features classical screens on either side of Waterloo Place. The bridge is constructed from droved ashlar, with polished voussoirs and polished ashlar used for the screens. It includes an impost course, archivolt, band course, and a crowning cornice.
On Waterloo Place, there are a pair of screens that have a base course, entablature, and blocking course. The central semicircular arch is highlighted by a console keystone and archivolt, framed by engaged Corinthian columns. To the right and left of the arch, there is a lower Ionic colonnade, and at the outer right and left, there are advanced sections of wall featuring a central blind niche and a recessed panel above.
The bridge is also adorned with spear-head finialled cast iron railings set on ashlar copes, which run the full length of the elevations along Waterloo Place.
Local climate
Regent Bridge, 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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- 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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