Calder Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the North Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 June 1982. Bridge.

Calder Bridge

WRENN ID
turning-lancet-mallow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Lanarkshire
Constituency
Airdrie and Shotts MP: Kenneth Stevenson (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 June 1982
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NS 815 573
Coordinates
55.79476, -3.89027
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Calder Bridge is a single segmental-span ashlar bridge built after 1823 by engineer Thomas Telford and master mason John Brownlie. It spans the South Calder water and features pilaster strips on either side of the arch, with a band course above. The bridge has splayed and sloping abutments.

Local climate

Calder Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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