Ledgowan Bridge, Achnasheen is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Bridge.
Ledgowan Bridge, Achnasheen
- WRENN ID
- proud-hammer-wax
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NH 158 583
- Coordinates
- 57.57788, -5.08156
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ledgowan Bridge, built between 1808 and 1819, is a single span Parliamentary Bridge. It is constructed from rubble with a dressed rubble arched ring and parapet. The bridge features shallow end buttresses and a splayed approach.
Local climate
Ledgowan Bridge, Achnasheen sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,740 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 71 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 57 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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