Chirnside Bridge, Whiteadder Water, Chirnsidebridge is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Bridge.
Chirnside Bridge, Whiteadder Water, Chirnsidebridge
- WRENN ID
- heavy-barrel-spring
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1997
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NT 851 562
- Coordinates
- 55.79918, -2.23792
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Chirnside Bridge is a mid 19th century, three-arched stone bridge, which includes one dry arch. It spans the Whiteadder Water and connects uneven bank levels. The bridge is constructed from squared, coursed, and stugged sandstone, featuring ashlar voussoirs in the arches. There are two irregular segmental arches over the water, each supported by a dividing cutwater buttress on either side, resting on a rusticated ashlar pier. Below the ashlar parapets, there is a bracketed string course. The dry arch is near-semicircular and has additional buttresses that separate it from the wet arches, providing a refuge above the bridge. There is evidence of former gabled structures that once abutted the bridge, and steps lead up from the bridge to the Paper Mill.
Local climate
Chirnside Bridge, Whiteadder Water, Chirnsidebridge receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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