Bloody Wheel Bridge, Main Water Of Luce, New Luce is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 2000. Bridge.

Bloody Wheel Bridge, Main Water Of Luce, New Luce

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 January 2000
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NX 169 651
Coordinates
54.94721, -4.85906
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Bloody Wheel Bridge is a railway bridge built in the later 19th century. It features a high, three-span design made of rubble, crossing the Main Water of Luce, with an additional later single span that crosses a road. The main bridge has semi-circular arches, while the later span has a segmental arch. The bridge includes iron bracing in the spandrels and an open balustrade.

Local climate

Bloody Wheel Bridge, Main Water Of Luce, New Luce sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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