Kalemouth Suspension Bridge is a Grade A listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 August 1977. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Kalemouth Suspension Bridge
- WRENN ID
- keen-roof-thistle
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1977
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NT 708 274
- Coordinates
- 55.53992, -2.46359
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kalemouth Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge built around 1830 by Captain Samuel Brown, a Royal Navy engineer. The bridge measures 180 feet in length and 16 feet in width, featuring iron rod suspenders that are alternately fastened to the centers of chain-links. It has a wooden deck and wooden railings. At each end of the bridge, there are two stone pylons, with the eastern pylons displaying defaced panels.
Local climate
Kalemouth Suspension Bridge receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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