Melrose Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1971. Bridge.

Melrose Bridge

WRENN ID
stark-newel-sorrel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 March 1971
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NT 528 348
Coordinates
55.60499, -2.75012
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Melrose Bridge is a single-carriageway, hump-backed bridge built between 1754 and 1762. It features two 80-foot arches and a central v-splayed cutwater that spans the River Tweed. The bridge is constructed from squared and snecked red sandstone rubble, with dressed sandstone voussoirs and buttressed approaches. It has a coped parapet that includes square, recessed pedestrian refuges.

Local climate

Melrose Bridge 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 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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