Gallows Knowe Bridge, Clova is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Bridge.

Gallows Knowe Bridge, Clova

WRENN ID
empty-granite-owl
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Cairngorms National Park
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 June 1971
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NO 325 728
Coordinates
56.84175, -3.10678
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Gallows Knowe Bridge, dated 1898, is a large bridge featuring a single segmental arch with splayed wing walls. The parapet is made of random grey rubble topped with flat bull-faced copes, while the arch is constructed with rusticated red sandstone voussoirs and has a brick soffit. The wing walls are accented with long and short red sandstone quoins. On the southeast elevation, there is a red sandstone margined tablet displaying the date 1898, and on the northwest elevation, there is a slightly simpler red sandstone tablet bearing the initials DR.

Local climate

Gallows Knowe Bridge, Clova 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 lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 84 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 59 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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