Balloch Bridge, River Leven, Balloch Road, Balloch is a Grade B listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996. Bridge.

Balloch Bridge, River Leven, Balloch Road, Balloch

WRENN ID
hollow-chalk-thistle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
Constituency
West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1996
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NS 391 819
Coordinates
56.00338, -4.58183
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Balloch Bridge, built in 1908, is a steel girder bridge that carries a road over the River Leven. It features a parapet with three segmental arches and a Double Warren truss, with bolted steel coping and ashlar dies. The bridge has flanking railings on a steel plinth on both the outer left and right sides. There are two remaining lamp standards on the piers, which are tall and support three flat arches.

Local climate

Balloch Bridge, River Leven, Balloch Road, Balloch sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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