Torgyle Bridge is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Bridge.

Torgyle Bridge

WRENN ID: gilded-parapet-ebony
Grade: A
Local Planning Authority: Highland
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 5 October 1971
Type: Bridge
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Joseph Mitchell, 1823 after earlier bridge by Thomas Telford.

c. 1811. Large, 3-span bridge, and centre arch being slightly

wider and higher. Tooled and pinned rubble with tooled ashlar

dressings. 3 segmental-headed tooled ashlar rings, the

dressings being alternate blocks of dark schist and lighter

granite, springing from rusticated masonry cutwater abutments.

Cutwaters rise as engaged columns, diminishing in girth and

decorated with dummy vertical and cruciform slits, terminating

at parapet level with simple blocked caps. Similarly detailed

end pilasters.

Band-course; tooled ashlar parapets slightly splayed approaches. Approximate width of arches; 48', 55', 48'.

Drystone embankments flank bridge.

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