Westerdale Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.
Westerdale Bridge
- WRENN ID
- former-minaret-dock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- OS grid reference
- ND 130 518
- Coordinates
- 58.44605, -3.49079
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Westerdale Bridge, over the River Thurso, was built in 1834. It is a twin-arched bridge constructed of rubble stone, with dressed rubble forming the arch rings. The bridge features triangular cut-waters rising as buttresses against the centre of each arch spandrel, and a shallow end buttress. Dressed rubble coped parapets run along the bridge, pierced by small square drainage vents above each arch ring. The approach to the bridge is slightly splayed, with an overall span of 80 feet. The New Statistical Account, revised in 1840, references the bridge on page 78.
Local climate
Westerdale Bridge receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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