Caponacre Viaduct, Glaisnock Water, Cumnock is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1977. Footbridge.
Caponacre Viaduct, Glaisnock Water, Cumnock
- WRENN ID
- gilded-passage-gorse
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1977
- Type
- Footbridge
- OS grid reference
- NS 573 195
- Coordinates
- 55.4487, -4.25657
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Caponacre Viaduct, built around 1870, features 13 tall near-semi circular arches arranged in a curve. It formerly carried the Ayr and Cumnock branch railway across the Glaisnock Water. The structure is constructed from rock-faced rubble for the piers, spandrels, and parapets, with a red ashlar finish on the inner arch surfaces.
Local climate
Caponacre Viaduct, Glaisnock Water, Cumnock 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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