Footbridge, Gosford House is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 January 1993.
Footbridge, Gosford House
- WRENN ID
- quiet-chapel-grain
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1993
- OS grid reference
- NT 458 787
- Coordinates
- 55.99841, -2.8691
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century stone footbridge, one of two identical structures spanning a man-made water course. The bridge is constructed from random rubble stone with an ashlar parapet. It features a small, narrow arch flanked by drum piers, topped with cast-iron railings and decorative urn and arrow-head finials along the parapet. The footbridge crosses a network of drains that feed ornamental lakes. Landscape designer J.C. Loudon attributes the landscape design to Ramsay (as for Wemyss House), referencing his ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF GARDENING p1251. It is part of a group of structures associated with the wider Gosford Estate. The bridge is documented in a J. Ainslie survey of the pleasure grounds from 1808, and also appears on an Ordnance Survey map of Haddingtonshire from 1854.
Local climate
Footbridge, Gosford House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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 0.3°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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