Old Bridge Of Dee is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971.
Old Bridge Of Dee
- WRENN ID
- riven-spandrel-laurel
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 734 599
- Coordinates
- 54.91823, -3.9762
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Bridge of Dee is a circa 1737, four-arch bridge built of rubble stone, spanning the Water of Dee at Bridge of Dee village. The bridge features V-cutwater buttresses and semi-circular arches. The parapets are also rubble, with rebuilt squared granite coping, and contain shallow, spalyed embrasures. The bridge is 186 feet long, with each arch approximately 30 to 40 feet in width. Formerly known as Granny Ford Bridge, it was marked as such on Ainslie’s map of 1797. OS Namebooks from 1842 provide additional details.
Local climate
Old Bridge Of Dee 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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