Kildonan Bridge is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971.
Kildonan Bridge
- WRENN ID
- mired-crypt-hemlock
- Grade
- C
- 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
- NC 902 217
- Coordinates
- 58.17058, -3.86815
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Kildonan Bridge is an early 19th century, single-span rubble bridge crossing the River Helmsdale, formerly known as the Ullie. The bridge has a slightly hump-backed profile and features a dressed rubble arch ring and parapet. Shallow end buttresses are present, along with splayed approaches. Various cast iron braces are incorporated into the structure. A plaque is affixed to the southeastern side of the bridge, commemorating Marjory Eadon, who accidentally drowned whilst fishing below the bridge in June 1927. The statutory address is Kildonan Bridge over River Helmsdale.
Local climate
Kildonan Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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