Benny's Bridge, Polmaise Estate is a Grade C listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1997. Bridge.
Benny's Bridge, Polmaise Estate
- WRENN ID
- young-thatch-pearl
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1997
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NS 833 922
- Coordinates
- 56.1087, -3.87692
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Benny's Bridge, located on the Polmaise Estate, is a small single arch road bridge that likely dates back to around 1760. It is constructed from squared and snecked rubble, featuring a voussoired ashlar ring arch and intrados. The bridge crosses a burn that leads from the River Forth and is now used for pedestrians.
Local climate
Benny's Bridge, Polmaise Estate sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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