Lovat Bridge is a Grade A listed building in the local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Lovat Bridge
- WRENN ID
- sacred-glass-rowan
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 516 449
- Coordinates
- 57.47057, -4.47585
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Lovat Bridge, built in 1810, is a five-span bridge designed by Thomas Telford. It is a symmetrical structure with a slight hump-back form. The bridge is constructed from tooled rubble stone with tooled ashlar dressings. The arches are defined by string courses and separated by triangular cutwaters rising to parapet height, which act as canted buttresses. A double string course runs along the bridge, and the tooled ashlar cope is repaired in places with cast replacements and is missing in other sections. Splayed approaches lead to square terminal piers. Later cast-iron guards have been fitted to the cutwaters facing upstream. The bridge was built for the Commission for Highland Roads and Bridges, costing $8,800, with Lord Lovat responsible for half of the sum. The River Beauly marks the boundary with Kilmorack Parish. References to the bridge can be found in Thomas Telford’s Autobiographical Atlas (1838), the New Statistical Account (1841), and A.R.B. Haldane’s New Ways Through the Glens (1962).
Local climate
Lovat Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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