Pier, Balintraid is a Grade C listed building in the local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.
Pier, Balintraid
- WRENN ID
- shifting-iron-oak
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- OS grid reference
- NH 741 710
- Coordinates
- 57.71158, -4.11385
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The pier at Balintraid was constructed in 1817 by Thomas Telford. It is a long structure built of roughly squared, tool-faced rubble stone. The seaward end curves, and a high rubble wall with a coping runs continuously along the southwestern side, offering protection. The seaward end of the pier is now in a state of disrepair. Further information can be found in John Hume’s The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland, volume 2, page 289.
Local climate
Pier, Balintraid sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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