Watch Knowe Bridge is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 June 2003. Bridge.

Watch Knowe Bridge

WRENN ID
north-span-larch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 June 2003
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NT 367 214
Coordinates
55.48261, -3.00167
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Watch Knowe Bridge is an early to mid 19th century structure that spans the Ettrick Water with three segmental arches. It is built from roughly squared and coursed rubble, featuring a rubble-coped parapet, voussoirs, step-coped semicircular cutwaters, and curved approaches. There is also a smaller overflow provision over the bank on the south arch.

Local climate

Watch Knowe Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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