Corsewall Mill Bridge is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972.
Corsewall Mill Bridge
- WRENN ID
- old-eave-autumn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- OS grid reference
- NX 020 701
- Coordinates
- 54.98668, -5.09539
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
An earlier 19th-century vehicular bridge crosses Corsewall Burn on a north-south axis. The bridge is a single span with a segmental arch to the west and a flat arch to the east. It is constructed of rubble, with rubble voussoirs forming the western arch. The bridge has concrete semicircular coping. Original millstones are incorporated into the rubble parapets, with three on the eastern side and two on the western side, terminating the parapet at each end. A buttress sits on either side of the flat arch to the east. The parapet angles to the northwest and is adjoined by a rubble wall.
The Ordnance Survey Map of 1847 shows a road crossing the burn at the same location, though it is not known if the bridge was in its current form at that time. Corsewall Mill Bridge is the only remaining feature of the former Corsewall Mill site. The mill itself, now demolished, was located to the west. According to Donnachie, it was an “interesting water-power site” with a “large multi-level, three/four-storey mill complex” dating from the late 18th century, and was a "very large and important mill locally.” The mill lade enters Corsewall Burn to the west of the bridge.
Local climate
Corsewall Mill Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 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 99% 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 0.2°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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