Borrodale Viaduct is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Viaduct.
Borrodale Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- final-flagstone-rain
- Grade
- A
- 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
- Viaduct
- OS grid reference
- NM 697 854
- Coordinates
- 56.90337, -5.78313
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Borrodale Viaduct, opened in 1901, is a high and wide single span massed concrete structure. It features a single concrete arch ring with rusticated detailing and a rubble parapet that has crenellation. The viaduct is flanked by rubble bridges that oversail the path on each side of Borrodale Burn, each with dressed rubble arch rings and crenellated parapets. All parapets are topped with concrete copings. A long, high approach causeway carries the track to the north. A continuous string course connects the rubble and concrete masonry. The centre span measures 127 feet 6 inches (38.9 meters) and is flanked by spans of 20 feet (6.1 meters).
Local climate
Borrodale 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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