Bridge, Glen Shiel is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Bridge, Glen Shiel
- WRENN ID
- under-alcove-smoke
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NG 935 188
- Coordinates
- 57.21388, -5.42049
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The bridge at Glen Shiel, built around 1815 by Thomas Telford, is a substantial single-span stone arch bridge crossing the River Shiel. It is constructed of coursed rubble with a dressed stone arched ring and parapet, incorporating a string course. The bridge is 65 feet wide and accessed from the south by a long drystone causeway. Contemporary reports, including an advertisement for tenders in the Edinburgh Evening Courant in February 1815, and Telford’s own Atlas, document its construction. The New Statistical Account of Scotland also references the bridge.
Local climate
Bridge, Glen Shiel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,160 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 71 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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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