Bridge, Drochaid Mhor is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971. Bridge.

Bridge, Drochaid Mhor

WRENN ID
inner-corbel-ivy
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 March 1971
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NC 359 604
Coordinates
58.50134, -4.81634
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Drochaid Mhor is a single span bridge built around 1830-1835. It features a rubble construction with a dressed rubble arched ring. The bridge has a dressed rubble coping on the parapet, along with splayed approaches and shallow end buttresses.

Local climate

Bridge, Drochaid Mhor sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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