Hensol Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971.
Hensol Bridge
- WRENN ID
- high-landing-crimson
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 663 700
- Coordinates
- 55.0073, -4.09106
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
An earlier 19th century granite bridge crosses the Black Water of Dee near Hensol House. The bridge features a single segmental arch with a 55-foot span. It is constructed with springers of bull-nosed and broached granite, and its voussoirs and soffit are of finely dressed granite. The spandrels, abutments, and parapets are built of random rubble, while the parapet coping is of dressed granite. The carriageway has a slight hump and shallow splay embrasures. Hensol House was designed by Robert Lugar in 1825, and the bridge was likely built around the same time, possibly to Lugar’s design.
Local climate
Hensol Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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