Loch Nan Uamh Viaduct is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Bridge.

Loch Nan Uamh Viaduct

WRENN ID
pitched-plinth-ridge
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NM 728 841
Coordinates
56.89257, -5.73054
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Loch Nan Uamh Viaduct is a concrete viaduct built in 1901. It features eight arches, with four segmental headed arch rings on each side of a wide central concrete pylon. Each arch spans 50 feet (approximately 45.7 meters).

Local climate

Loch Nan Uamh Viaduct sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,490 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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