Kirklee Bridge, River Kelvin, Kirklee Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 July 1987. Bridge.
Kirklee Bridge, River Kelvin, Kirklee Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- noble-facade-myrtle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NS 568 678
- Coordinates
- 55.88259, -4.2899
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kirklee Bridge, built between 1899 and 1900 by engineers Forman and McColl, is a tall masonry three-arch bridge located on Kirklee Road over the River Kelvin. It features a central depressed arch flanked by subsidiary round-headed arches that span the Kelvin Walkway.
The bridge is constructed from polished red sandstone, with rock-faced soffits and abutments. Pairs of granite Ionic columns support a polished pink granite parapet on either side of the main arch. The arches are adorned with roll-moulding above the voussoirs, while the subsidiary arches have cartouche keystones. The spandrels of the main arch display the City of Glasgow arms in bas-relief.
The bridge includes a die and baluster parapet with cast-iron lamp brackets positioned over the arches. There is a solid granite parapet over the abutments, which features terminal drum piers that support large cast-iron lamp brackets. The parapet also splays to the north.
Local climate
Kirklee Bridge, River Kelvin, Kirklee Road, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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