Old Bridge, Tongland is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Bridge.
Old Bridge, Tongland
- WRENN ID
- plain-niche-laurel
- 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
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NX 696 536
- Coordinates
- 54.86067, -4.03153
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Bridge in Tongland was built in 1737 and features a two-arch stone design that spans the River Dee, marking the boundary between the parishes of Tongland and Kirkcudbright. The bridge has two segmental arches with an approximate total span of 100 feet, including a central pier. V-cutwater buttresses are located on both sides of the arches, which may have been partially rebuilt or had their quoin-stones recut. The bridge is constructed with narrow rubble voussoirs, a rubble soffit, and rubble abutments. The dressed stone is used for the cutwaters and the base of the central pier. The parapets, which have been rebuilt, now cantilever out to provide footpaths on each side. The original width of the carriageway was approximately 10 feet. The parapet features sandstone coping and slightly splayed embrasures that end in a pyramidal capstone.
Local climate
Old Bridge, Tongland sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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