Old Shiel Bridge, Acharacle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Bridge.
Old Shiel Bridge, Acharacle
- WRENN ID
- mired-fireplace-crag
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NM 673 691
- Coordinates
- 56.75599, -5.80674
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Old Shiel Bridge in Acharacle was designed by Thomas Telford around 1804. It is a slightly hump-backed bridge made of rubble, featuring a single dressed rubble arch ring and a low parapet.
Local climate
Old Shiel Bridge, Acharacle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,280 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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