Bridge, Linn Burn, Paxton House is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 2001.
Bridge, Linn Burn, Paxton House
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-ledge-twilight
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 March 2001
- OS grid reference
- NT 933 522
- Coordinates
- 55.76315, -2.10811
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a circa 1770 bridge spanning Linn Burn, forming part of the main approach to Paxton House. The bridge is constructed primarily of coursed and droved pink sandstone with ashlar dressings, and features three large, round-arched openings with keystones. The arches have plain voussoirs, and the central keystones are adorned with carved busts. Continuous string courses run beneath low, coped, and stepped parapets, incorporating three bays of finialled iron railings between steps on each side. The ends of the bridge are splayed, with coped, square-plan piers.
The bridge is set within the Paxton House Estate, which is a Group comprised of several listed structures including boundary walls, railings, gatepiers, cottages, lodges, and Paxton House itself. Historical records, including Armstrong's map of 1771 and the Ordnance Survey map of 1857, document the bridge’s existence. It is thought to have been built between 1767 and 1776.
Local climate
Bridge, Linn Burn, Paxton House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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