Goldielea Viaduct is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Railway viaduct.
Goldielea Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- old-eave-bracken
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Railway viaduct
- OS grid reference
- NX 930 736
- Coordinates
- 55.04568, -3.67538
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Goldielea Viaduct is a large railway viaduct that was built for the Castle Douglas to Dumfries railway, which opened on November 7, 1859. It spans a wide valley and features 18 round arches supported by battered piers. The structure is made of channelled, bullfaced red ashlar and includes pilaster strips at intervals, which rise upwards to create pedestrian refuges. A string course runs below the coped parapet.
Local climate
Goldielea Viaduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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