Glaisters Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990.
Glaisters Bridge
- WRENN ID
- solitary-stair-cream
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1990
- OS grid reference
- NX 755 801
- Coordinates
- 55.09988, -3.95209
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Glaisters Bridge, probably dating to around 1830, is a single-arch bridge spanning the Urr Water, situated near Glaisters farm on the boundary between Kirkpatrick-Durham and Balmaclellan. It features a depressed arch with dressed springers and red sandstone voussoirs. The bridge has a rubble spandrel, soffit, and parapet. The abutment terminal piers are constructed of rubble. The statutory address is Glaisters Bridge.
Local climate
Glaisters Bridge 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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