Bowland Bridge, Gala Water, Bowland is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Bridge. 1 related planning application.

Bowland Bridge, Gala Water, Bowland

WRENN ID
young-bronze-sepia
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 January 1971
Type
Bridge
Address
Bowland Bridge, Gala Water, Bowland, TD1 2NF
OS grid reference
NT 454 401
Coordinates
55.65157, -2.8677
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Bowland Bridge, dated 1815 on the keystone, is a substantial road bridge featuring four segmental arches of varying widths. It is constructed from roughly squared whinstone rubble, with dressed voussoirs. The bridge has parapets topped with pink sandstone copes. The wide central arch is flanked by pilaster buttresses, and there are three later raking buttresses on the south side and one on the north side. A dentiled string course is present above the smaller arch at the far east.

Local climate

Bowland Bridge, Gala Water, Bowland receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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