Elshieshields Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971.
Elshieshields Bridge
- WRENN ID
- narrow-corbel-bittern
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NY 068 852
- Coordinates
- 55.15246, -3.46377
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Elshieshields Bridge is a road bridge built in 1825, as indicated by an indistinct datestone. It is a single, wide segmental arch spanning the Water of Ae. The bridge is constructed of bull-faced, channelled red ashlar and voussoirs. A band sits below the ramped and coped parapets, which have diagonally droved inner faces and square piers leading to slightly curved approaches. The bridge is situated in Kirkmichael Parish. Notes from the National Records of Scotland dated 1837 include a plan and elevation, believed to be from around 1900. Further details are recorded in the Minutes of the Commissioners of Supply, held in the Ewart Library, Dumfries.
Local climate
Elshieshields Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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