Hoddom Bridge is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971.
Hoddom Bridge
- WRENN ID
- peeling-corbel-heath
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- OS grid reference
- NY 163 727
- Coordinates
- 55.04189, -3.31039
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Hoddom Bridge is a road bridge, built approximately between 1762 and 1764 by Alexander Laurie of Newton Stewart, a mason. The bridge carries the road over the River Annan and comprises three wide, segmental arches, measuring approximately 14 metres wide, 20 metres across, and 14 metres high. It is constructed of ashlar, mostly diagonally droved, with rebuilt parapets that have a stugged finish, and chamfered coping blocks. Recessed arch rings are present, and pointed cutwaters splay inwards below the parapets on each side. The roadway is narrow, and the parapets have a shallow, ramped profile, partly rebuilt. The approaches to the bridge have been widened.
The bridge compares in style to Brydekirk bridge and the Nith bridge at Thornhill. Records indicate that Commissioners of Supply visited the site on December 2nd, 1760, with the first payment made in January 1763 and the final payment on June 6th, 1765. The bridge was upgraded from Category B to Grade A on October 4th, 1988. Further details can be found in the Minutes of the Commissioners of Supply, documents D1/1/6 and D1/1/7, page 35.
Local climate
Hoddom Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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