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Latitude: 55.8039 / 55°48'13"N
Longitude: -2.341 / 2°20'27"W
OS Eastings: 378720
OS Northings: 656783
OS Grid: NT787567
Mapcode National: GBR D12B.Z9
Mapcode Global: WH8X2.0DH1
Plus Code: 9C7VRM35+GH
Entry Name: Preston Bridge
Listing Name: Preston Bridge
Listing Date: 9 June 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 335348
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB4120
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200335348
Location: Bunkle and Preston
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire
Parish: Bunkle And Preston
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: Road bridge
Dated 1770 with later repairs. 3-arched, humped-back bridge, in style of William Adam, spanning Whiteadder Water (largest arch at centre). Pointed red sandstone rubble to parapets; coursed and squared red sandstone rubble to spandrels; sandstone ashlar dressings. Segmental-arched openings with flush voussoirs; raised outer bands with central keystones (that to S, to outer left dated '1770'); coursed rubble soffits and abutments. Empty circular niches centred in spandrels to N; carved floral detail in niches to S. Mutuled string courses beneath coped parapets; weathered, square-plan panels aligned above keystones. Coursed sandstone cutwaters with stepped bases flanking central opening. Buttressed wing walls at either end; further rubble-coped, rubble walls to E; circular-plan terminating piers to W.
One of the most prominent landmarks in the parish, this "...handsome stone bridge" (OS Name Book) spans the boundary between Bunkle & Preston and the adjoining parish of Duns. Dated 1770, much of the original detailing remains intact - the spandrel niches, mutuled string courses and keystoned arches being particularly notable. See separate list entry for the similarly detailed Todheugh Bridge.
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