Bridge, Drochaid Mhor is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Bridge, Drochaid Mhor
- WRENN ID
- endless-tracery-birch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NG 834 423
- Coordinates
- 57.41934, -5.60854
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a single-span rubble bridge, known as Drochaid Mhor, constructed between 1822 and 1825 as part of the Highland Roads project under Joseph Mitchell, General Inspector of Highland Roads. The bridge crosses the River Kishorn. The western side of the bridge, approaching from Applecross, curves to follow the line of the hillside. It features a drystone causeway approach. The bridge is built with rubble stone, with a dressed rubble arch ring and parapet, and has shallow buttresses at each end. The bridge’s construction linked the 1822-25 Kishorn-Applecross road with the circa 1815 Parliamentary Road from Lochcarron to Shieldaig, which passes within approximately 100 yards of the bridge at Tornapress. Tenders for the bridge's construction were advertised in the Inverness Journal in September 1822 and February 1825.
Local climate
Bridge, Drochaid Mhor sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,080 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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