Old Rome Bridge, Gatehead is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 October 2007. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Old Rome Bridge, Gatehead
- WRENN ID
- slow-window-smoke
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 October 2007
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NS 391 361
- Coordinates
- 55.5925, -4.55353
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Rome Bridge at Gatehead, dated 1870, features two wide segmental arches that span the River Irvine. It is supported by pediment-capped pilaster buttresses, vermiculated voussoirs, and a central triangular cutwater. The bridge is constructed from coursed, bull-faced red sandstone with ashlar dressings, soffits, and coping, though there are some brick repairs to the cutwater. A roll-moulded string course runs along the structure. The pilaster buttresses flank the arches and form the end piers, rising slightly above the parapet and topped with pedimented caps. The cap of the central buttress is dated.
Local climate
Old Rome Bridge, Gatehead sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,450 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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