Weir, River Carron, Carron is a Grade B listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 August 1992. Industrial.
Weir, River Carron, Carron
- WRENN ID
- other-minaret-barley
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Constituency
- Alloa and Grangemouth MP: Brian Leishman (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1992
- Type
- Industrial
- OS grid reference
- NS 879 823
- Coordinates
- 56.0206, -3.79978
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This structure is a gravity weir built across the River Carron, likely around 1759 for the Carron Company. It features a bullnosed ashlar shallow-sloped face on the downstream side.
Local climate
Weir, River Carron, Carron sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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