Highmill Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 July 1988.
Highmill Bridge
- WRENN ID
- roaming-postern-soot
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1988
- OS grid reference
- NY 368 858
- Coordinates
- 55.16278, -2.99226
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Highmill Bridge is a single segmental arched road bridge dated 1821, with Hyslop suggesting completion in 1822. The bridge is constructed from stugged grey ashlar with v-channelled voussoirs, a banked course below a ramped parapet featuring splayed approaches and panels above the keystone. According to the New Statistical Account, the span measures 100 feet.
Local climate
Highmill Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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