Powfoot Bridge and Retaining Walls is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 April 1993.
Powfoot Bridge and Retaining Walls
- WRENN ID
- muted-lintel-lake
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 April 1993
- OS grid reference
- NY 148 657
- Coordinates
- 54.97923, -3.33249
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The bridge and associated retaining walls at Powfoot date from around 1900 and were designed by Frank C Carruthers of Lockerbie and Dumfries. The retaining walls, lining the banks of the Pow Burn, are deliberately rustic, constructed as a drystone wall built in courses with rounded copestones of irregular size, which curve upwards to meet the bridge. The bridge itself is a concrete beam bridge with rock-faced sandstone abutments. It features simple iron railings, with modern supplementary protective measures, set above panelled ashlar dies with ogee tops. The abutments are wider than the bridge structure, reflecting the former presence of a dam that impounded an ornamental lake; this dam has since been removed. A low brick wall with cast iron railings now marks the site of the former dam. The bridge represents an early example of concrete beam construction. The site is part of a group of buildings including items 30, 31, 32, 33, and 33B.
Local climate
Powfoot Bridge and Retaining Walls sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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 0.3°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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