Bridge Over River Foyers, Upper Foyers, Foyers is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. Bridge.

Bridge Over River Foyers, Upper Foyers, Foyers

WRENN ID
shadowed-bastion-cobweb
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 April 1986
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NH 497 199
Coordinates
57.24555, -4.49097
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The bridge over the River Foyers, located in Upper Foyers, dates from the late 18th to early 19th century. It is a single span rubble bridge that crosses a narrow gorge. The bridge features a tooled rubble segmental arch ring and has a renewed rubble parapet topped with a concrete cope. The approximate span of the bridge is 30 feet.

Local climate

Bridge Over River Foyers, Upper Foyers, Foyers sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 78 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 61 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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