Stobs Viaduct is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 July 2003. Viaduct.
Stobs Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- dusted-vault-nightshade
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 July 2003
- Type
- Viaduct
- OS grid reference
- NT 504 098
- Coordinates
- 55.37992, -2.7831
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Stobs Viaduct was built around 1860 for The North British Railway. It is a tall structure featuring four semi-circular arches supported by three narrow piers, with earth embankments at either end, spanning Barnes Burn and a minor road. The viaduct is constructed with whinstone voussoirs and has piers made of brick and coursed whinstone rubble. The spandrels are made of rubble and are marked to resemble ashlar, leading up to a low ashlar parapet that has later been fitted with open wire fencing. The east and west elevations show the tall viaduct with its four arches and the whinstone rubble piers, which include some brick repair work. Diagonally angled cast-iron pipes are installed to drain the track bed into the second arch above the burn. The track has since been dismantled.
Local climate
Stobs Viaduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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