Fairy Bridge, Skye is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. Bridge.
Fairy Bridge, Skye
- WRENN ID
- keen-merlon-frost
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 September 1982
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NG 278 513
- Coordinates
- 57.47043, -6.54145
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fairy Bridge on Skye is a small single-arched bridge made of rubble dressed stone forming the arched ring. It features splayed parapets and dry stone abutments.
Local climate
Fairy Bridge, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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