Tweed Bridge, River Tweed, Innerleithen

1886 for The Peeblesshire Road Trustees; RS Anderson (engineer) and Robertson & Co, Workington (contractors). Log-back girder road bridge comprising 4-spans held on stone piers and cutwaters, terminating in low wing walls. Mild steel and wrought iron with some cast-iron components (decorative green sand cast-iron plaques); rock-faced ashlar walls with dressed ashlar piers and coping.

NE AND SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATIONS: three very large stone piers morphing into diamond-shaped cutwaters, cushion caps surmounting, similar terminating piers to end, all supporting the 4 log-backed spans (each with riveted cross trusses and railing parapets embossed with STOCKTON MIC); pair of ornate rectangular plaques of erection aligned with central piers with ERECTED BY THE PEEBLES SHIRE ROAD TRUSTEES 1886 (surrounding coat of arms with lion rampant shield with thistles to flanks), RS ANDERSON ENGINEER and ROBERTSON & CO CONTRACTORS WORKINGTON. Small wing walls with segmental coping to outer of end piers (stone protectors adjacent to metalwork).