Bonnington Bridge, Water Of Leith, Newhaven Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. Bridge. 1 related planning application.

Bonnington Bridge, Water Of Leith, Newhaven Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
scattered-casement-crag
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1994
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NT 259 760
Coordinates
55.97178, -3.18751
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Bonnington Bridge, located over the Water of Leith on Newhaven Road in Edinburgh, was designed by engineer David C Proudfoot and constructed between 1902 and 1903. This single span bridge features a segmental arch and has an extended built-up approach to the south, which includes a subsidiary arched span over a former mill lade. The bridge is made of squared, snecked, and stugged sandstone, with ashlar voussoirs and an archivolt. Above the voussoirs is a billeted string course, and the bridge has a coped ashlar parapet. An open balustrade runs along the bridge, which includes pedimented central dies and a swagged frieze. There is a tablet with a bronze plaque inscribed with coats of arms. The terminal piers have rusticated bases and sarcophagus dies, while the approaches feature solid stepped parapets and dies.

Local climate

Bonnington Bridge, Water Of Leith, Newhaven Road, 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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