Water Of Leith Bridge, Dean Path, Dean Village, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Bridge.

Water Of Leith Bridge, Dean Path, Dean Village, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
lesser-dormer-spring
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NT 241 739
Coordinates
55.95233, -3.2167
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Water of Leith Bridge, located on Dean Path in Dean Village, Edinburgh, is an early 18th-century single span bridge. It features a later roadway and a pedestrian walkway. The bridge is constructed of coursed random rubble and has a sandstone ashlar parapet, which is splayed at both ends.

Local climate

Water Of Leith Bridge, Dean Path, Dean Village, 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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