Bridge Of Laroch, Ballachulish is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Bridge Of Laroch, Ballachulish
- WRENN ID
- sunken-lancet-vermeil
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NN 080 579
- Coordinates
- 56.67397, -5.13407
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bridge of Laroch is a single-span, hump-backed bridge dating to 1785. Constructed of rubble with a dressed rubble arch ring, it features a roughly dressed rubble parapet. Some areas have heavy cement pointing. The bridge was built as part of the military road linking Stirling and Fort William. Originally, the route through the area in 1752 ran via the Devil’s Staircase and Kinlochleven, but it was re-aligned in 1785 to pass through Glencoe and Ballachulish. William Taylor’s 1976 publication, The Military Roads in Scotland, provides further detail on page 73.
Local climate
Bridge Of Laroch, Ballachulish sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,070 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 72 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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