Avon Bridge, River Avon, Grangemouth Road, Grangemouth is a Grade C listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1979. Bridge. 3 related planning applications.

Avon Bridge, River Avon, Grangemouth Road, Grangemouth

WRENN ID
upper-courtyard-sage
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Falkirk
Constituency
Alloa and Grangemouth MP: Brian Leishman (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 April 1979
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NS 954 805
Coordinates
56.00631, -3.6787
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Avon Bridge, located over the River Avon on Grangemouth Road, was built in the mid-19th century. It features five semi-circular arches made of droved ashlar stone. The bridge has a string course and slab copings, along with prominent rounded cut-waters. Additionally, there is a pipeline that runs along the south side of the bridge.

Local climate

Avon Bridge, River Avon, Grangemouth Road, Grangemouth sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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