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
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1993
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NX 417 804
- Coordinates
- 55.09281, -4.4808
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Buchan Bridge is a vehicular bridge built in 1851, spanning the Buchan Burn and oriented on an east-west axis. It features a single span with a semicircular arch, constructed from rubble with granite dressings. The bridge has bull-faced voussoirs and wide rounded polished coping, supported by natural rock abutments. A granite-coped buttress is located to the southwest. The smooth keystones include one on the south side that is dated "1851". The parapets are peaked at the center and have panels on the inside. The south parapet is inscribed with "This Road from the Esconchan Gate to Buchan and this Bridge were designed and executed by Randolph IX Earl of Galloway AD 1851". The north parapet features the inscription "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".
Local climate
Buchan Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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