Allt Ratagain Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982.
Allt Ratagain Bridge
- WRENN ID
- swift-sandstone-equinox
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 September 1982
- OS grid reference
- NG 916 193
- Coordinates
- 57.21778, -5.4523
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Allt Ratagain Bridge is a circa 1815 rubble bridge and causeway. The bridge, approximately 35 feet high and 10 feet wide, has a single narrow arch and an overall height of roughly 40 feet. A low parapet runs along the bridge, featuring a sharp bend at the southeastern end and widely splayed sides at the northwestern end. The bridge forms part of the Parliamentary Road, built to connect Glenshiel to Bernera Barracks, Glenelg, and the old crossing to Skye at Kylerhea. Advertisements for tenders for the bridge's construction appeared in the Edinburgh Evening Courant on February 27, 1815, and further details are recorded in the New Statistical Account.
Local climate
Allt Ratagain Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,230 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 44 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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