Infirmary Suspension Footbridge, Ness Walk, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1976. Bridge.

Infirmary Suspension Footbridge, Ness Walk, Inverness

WRENN ID
solemn-ember-jackdaw
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 December 1976
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NH 664 445
Coordinates
57.47164, -4.22891
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Infirmary Suspension Footbridge, located on Ness Walk in Inverness, was designed by C R Manners and completed in 1881. This suspension bridge features steel wire-rope cables and lattice-girder spans supported by pylons on cast-iron piers. The central span measures 173 feet, while the side spans are approximately 50 feet each.

Local climate

Infirmary Suspension Footbridge, Ness Walk, Inverness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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