Bridge Over Gore Water, Borthwick is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1998. Bridge.

Bridge Over Gore Water, Borthwick

WRENN ID
shadowed-soffit-equinox
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 March 1998
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NT 367 597
Coordinates
55.82696, -3.01163
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The bridge over Gore Water in Borthwick is an early 19th-century structure featuring a semi-circular arch. It is constructed from tooled random rubble, with a stugged ashlar arch ring and stugged semi-circular coping. The bridge also has curved wing walls.

Local climate

Bridge Over Gore Water, Borthwick 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 lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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 0.3°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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