Spittal Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Bridge.
Spittal Bridge
- WRENN ID
- winding-postern-stoat
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NX 360 579
- Coordinates
- 54.88891, -4.55818
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Spittal Bridge is an early 19th century, two-arch stone bridge located on the B733 at the boundaries of the Kirkcowan and Penninghame parishes, spanning the River Bladnoch. The bridge features segmental arch spans and has V-cutwater buttresses on each side. The main structure is made of dressed granite, including the spandrels, voussoirs, soffit, springers, and cutwaters. It also has a coped granite parapet. The subsidiary arch is constructed with brick voussoirs.
Local climate
Spittal Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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