Abbey Bridge, Bridge Street, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. Bridge. 1 related planning application.

Abbey Bridge, Bridge Street, Paisley

WRENN ID
rough-pinnacle-kestrel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 March 1985
Type
Bridge
Address
Abbey Bridge, Bridge Street, Paisley, PA1 1XN
OS grid reference
NS 485 638
Coordinates
55.84376, -4.42069
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Abbey Bridge, located on Bridge Street in Paisley, was built between 1878 and 1879 and widened in 1939. It is a two-span cast-iron bridge featuring ornamental facing panels and railings. The bridge has semi-circular ashlar cutwaters that are raised to serve as pedestals for lamp standards. There are similar pedestals at both ends of each parapet.

Local climate

Abbey Bridge, Bridge Street, Paisley sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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