Ballochan Linn Viaduct is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Viaduct. 1 related planning application.
Ballochan Linn Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- white-finial-saffron
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Viaduct
- OS grid reference
- NX 910 874
- Coordinates
- 55.16948, -3.71208
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ballochan Linn Viaduct is a railway viaduct on the Dumfries-Closeburn line, designed by engineer John Millar and opened on October 15, 1849. It features three round arches that support a double track above Ballochan Linn. The structure is built from stugged red ashlar, with rusticated voussoirs and quoins on battered piers. The abutments are slightly battered, and there are terminal piers and a string course below the parapet, topped with an iron handrail.
Local climate
Ballochan Linn Viaduct sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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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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