Oykel Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971. Bridge.
Oykel Bridge
- WRENN ID
- hollow-pedestal-magpie
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1971
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NC 385 009
- Coordinates
- 57.96817, -4.73083
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Oykel Bridge is an early 19th-century high single span bridge made of rubble. It features a dressed rubble arched ring and footings, along with a dressed rubble parapet cope that has a splayed approach.
Local climate
Oykel Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 52 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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