Gill Burn Viaduct, Morton is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Viaduct.
Gill Burn Viaduct, Morton
- WRENN ID
- wild-frieze-sunrise
- 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
- NS 880 006
- Coordinates
- 55.2871, -3.76413
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gill Burn Viaduct, located on the Closeburn-New Cumnock railway line, was engineered by John Miller and opened on October 28, 1850. This railway viaduct features three segmental arches that support a double track elevated above Gill Burn. The structure is made of channelled red ashlar with rusticated voussoirs, and it has decorative bands at the imposts and at the parapet level, which is topped with a plain iron handrail. The viaduct also includes outer pilaster strips and stugged abutments.
Local climate
Gill Burn Viaduct, Morton 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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