Gowkhall Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Bridge.
Gowkhall Bridge
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-terrace-jackdaw
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NY 250 773
- Coordinates
- 55.08491, -3.17589
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gowkhall Bridge is a road bridge built in 1829 by Parks Masons. It features a single segmental arch over the Kirtle Water. The bridge is constructed from bull-faced grey ashlar and voussoirs. Its ramped parapets are stugged, and there is a band course below the parapets along with polished ashlar coping. The square piers leading to the splayed approaches have shallow pyramidal caps.
Local climate
Gowkhall Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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