Kirkland Bridge, Cairn Water, Kirkland is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986.
Kirkland Bridge, Cairn Water, Kirkland
- WRENN ID
- eternal-shingle-cobweb
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- OS grid reference
- NX 812 900
- Coordinates
- 55.19085, -3.8673
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kirkland Bridge is an 1813 road bridge built over the Cairn Water. It consists of a single segmental-span, constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings. The bridge features recessed arch rings, ramped parapets, and coped parapets which splay towards the approaches. Minute details of the bridge's construction, and related records, are held in the Ewart Library, references D1/1/13 P.479 and subsequent pages.
Local climate
Kirkland Bridge, Cairn Water, Kirkland sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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