Carron Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971.
Carron Bridge
- WRENN ID
- silent-corbel-violet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 585 910
- Coordinates
- 57.88605, -4.3876
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Carron Bridge, dated 1818, was engineered by David Wilson and built as a large single-span bridge over the River Carron. The bridge is constructed of coursed rubble with a high arch ring of ashlar, which has been later rendered. A small flood/cattle arch is situated on the south side, and the parapet is capped with an ashlar cope. A date stone is set into the centre of the south face, above the arch. Shallow end buttresses and splayed approaches are also present. The bridge features various iron repair stays. An inscription worn into the south side of the bridge parapet reads "This bridge was erected by the Second District of Roads, Ross-shire, 1818, Alex……". The surname is indistinct, but "Alex……" is believed to be the local engineer in charge. Advertisements for tenders for the bridge’s construction appeared in the Edinburgh Evening Courant (November 27, 1817) and the Inverness Journal (October 31, 1817).
Local climate
Carron Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 72 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 55 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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