Gartchonzie Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Bridge.
Gartchonzie Bridge
- WRENN ID
- wild-shingle-merlin
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NN 604 071
- Coordinates
- 56.23631, -4.25238
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gartchonzie Bridge is a two-arch rubble bridge over the Eas Gobhain, dated 1777, and built by Peter McInnes, a mason from Crieff. It was constructed under the direction of the Commissioners of Forfeited Estates as part of an improvement scheme for the forfeited estate of the Duke of Perth following the 1745 Jacobite uprising. This bridge is a well-preserved example of a later 18th century structure.
The bridge features two segmental arches with vertically set, narrow voussoirs, separated by a pointed cutwater with a piended head. The abutment and parapet are made of rubble and are capped with spaced, vertically set narrow rubble stones. Some repointing has been done to the abutment, and the road surface is modern tarmac from the late 20th century.
The materials used include squared rubble for the voussoirs and cutwaters, along with random rubble. An inscription stone on the upstream spandrel reads: "THIS BUILDING ERECTED A.D. 1777 / HIS MAJESTY / GAVE IN AID TO IT OUT OF THE ANNEXED / ESTATES £ 110 STR. / VIATOR / TUTO TRANSEAS / SIS MEMOR / REGII BENEFICII" (Traveler, may you cross safely. Be mindful of the Royal benefaction).
Local climate
Gartchonzie Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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