Queen Mary's Bridge, Penkiln Burn, Minnigaff, Newton Stewart is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Footbridge.

Queen Mary's Bridge, Penkiln Burn, Minnigaff, Newton Stewart

WRENN ID
broken-bailey-gold
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1971
Type
Footbridge
OS grid reference
NX 413 669
Coordinates
54.97177, -4.48045
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Queen Mary's Bridge is a footbridge that spans Penkiln Burn, originally dating from the 16th century, with 18th-century elements and rebuilt around 1960. The bridge is oriented on an east-west axis and features a double span with semicircular arches, the western overflow arch being smaller. It is constructed of rubble, with rubble voussoirs, and the arches spring from natural rock. A massive cutwater buttress is located to the north. The bridge has a modern handrail supported by rubble piers and concrete coping. It is adjoined to Cumloden Waulkmill to the northeast, with rubble walls extending to the south.

Local climate

Queen Mary's Bridge, Penkiln Burn, Minnigaff, Newton Stewart sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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