Bilston Viaduct is a Grade A listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Bridge.
Bilston Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- little-chamber-pine
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NT 280 648
- Coordinates
- 55.87152, -3.15103
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bilston Viaduct is a late 19th-century box lattice girder bridge supported by bull-faced sandstone abutments. The bridge features lattice work parapets.
Local climate
Bilston Viaduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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