Aqueduct, Forth And Clyde Canal, Bilsland Drive, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 April 1992. Aqueduct.
Aqueduct, Forth And Clyde Canal, Bilsland Drive, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- vacant-transept-pine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1992
- Type
- Aqueduct
- OS grid reference
- NS 575 680
- Coordinates
- 55.88458, -4.27914
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The aqueduct, built in 1879, is a large single-span masonry structure that carries the Forth and Clyde Canal (Glasgow Branch) over Bilsland Drive (B808). It is constructed from bull-faced coursed sandstone rubble, featuring spandrels and wing walls, an ashlar string course, a parapet with a coping, and rusticated ashlar voussoirs. The canal is supported by a flat segmental arch, while the towpath on the west side is set on a semicircular arch. The wing walls are slightly battered, with the eastern side parallel to the canal and the western side having a straight northern wing wall that runs parallel to the road, while the southern wing wall curves to follow the wall. Pilasters are positioned at the ends of the span on the eastern side, and on the western side, the pilasters are set in a re-entrant angle. The masonry of the pilasters is dressed at the corners.
Local climate
Aqueduct, Forth And Clyde Canal, Bilsland Drive, 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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