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

Gattonside Suspension Footbridge, Melrose

WRENN ID
scattered-ashlar-dawn
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 545 345
Coordinates
55.60282, -2.72331
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Gattonside Suspension Footbridge in Melrose was built in 1826 by Redpath Brown and Co from Edinburgh. This footbridge features iron-link suspension chains and iron rods for vertical suspenders, supporting a wooden deck. The pylons are designed in a Gothic style, with central pointed arched openings and corbelled and crenellated heads. The structure is harled with dressed ashlar stone, and it includes delicate cast-iron Gothic tracery in the heads of the arches.

Local climate

Gattonside Suspension Footbridge, Melrose receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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