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
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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