Buchan Bridge is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1993. Bridge.
Buchan Bridge
- WRENN ID
- eternal-bracket-hemlock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1993
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1851 (dated). Vehicular bridge over Buchan Burn; single track, on E-W axis. Single spans with semicircular arch. Rubble; granite dressings. Bull-faced voussoirs and wide rounded polished coping. Natural rock abutments. Granite coped buttress to SW. Smooth keystones; keystone to S dated "1851". Parapets peaked at centre over panels to inside of parapets. Panel to S parapet inscribed "This Road from the Esconchan Gate to Buchan and this Bridge were designed and executed by Randolph IX Earl of Galloway AD 1851". Panel to N parapet inscribed "Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires what mortal hand, Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand".
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