Rolling Lift Bridge Over White Cart, Inchinnan Road, Renfrew is a Grade A listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 December 1994. Bridge.
Rolling Lift Bridge Over White Cart, Inchinnan Road, Renfrew
- WRENN ID
- long-string-weasel
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire North MP: Alison Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1994
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NS 493 678
- Coordinates
- 55.88005, -4.40958
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Rolling Lift Bridge over the White Cart on Inchinnan Road in Renfrew was built in 1923. It is a single-span Scherzer rolling lift bridge featuring a truss span with the roadway located on the lower chord. The bridge has bracketed footpaths with plain steel railings. At the eastern end, there are counterweight and control cabins that are single storey, have piend roofs, and are supported on steel trestles, connected by a linking gantry. The bridge is anchored by steel piled abutments.
Local climate
Rolling Lift Bridge Over White Cart, Inchinnan Road, Renfrew sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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