Railway Viaduct Over River Findhorn, Tomatin is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Bridge. 3 related planning applications.
Railway Viaduct Over River Findhorn, Tomatin
- WRENN ID
- low-rotunda-poplar
- 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
- NH 807 288
- Coordinates
- 57.33423, -3.98307
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Railway Viaduct over the River Findhorn in Tomatin was designed by John Fowler and Murdoch Paterson and completed in 1897. This structure features a 9-span steel lattice-girder bridge supported by tall, slender, tooled rubble piers. Two of these piers are located in the River Findhorn and have rounded cutwaters. At each end, there are masonry abutments with paired narrow round-headed arch rings. The viaduct is slightly curved and has an overall length of 445 yards (405 meters).
Local climate
Railway Viaduct Over River Findhorn, Tomatin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 80 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 63 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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