The Cannery, Shiel Bridge is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Fishing station.
The Cannery, Shiel Bridge
- WRENN ID
- silent-mullion-cream
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Fishing station
- OS grid reference
- NM 661 712
- Coordinates
- 56.77412, -5.82887
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Cannery at Shiel Bridge is an early 19th century fishery building located at the mouth of the Sheil River. It consists of a store and fish-house along with two icehouses. The store and fish-house is a two-storey, irregular four-bay structure facing west, featuring single-storey lean-to extensions at both the north and south gables. The building has low gabled wings that project westward, creating a U-shaped courtyard at the front. It is constructed of rubble with tooled rubble dressings.
The main entrance is an off-centre wide doorway with double leaf plank doors, and there are two similar openings on the first floor. The fenestration is symmetrical, with multi-pane glazing in the outer bays. There are four ground floor windows on the rear elevation. The building has an end stack at the south gable and a square apex finial at the north, topped with slate roofs. Additionally, there is an earlier 19th century rubble pier associated with the site.
Local climate
The Cannery, Shiel Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,280 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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