Ousdale Bridge is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.
Ousdale Bridge
- WRENN ID
- unlit-cellar-gorse
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- OS grid reference
- ND 065 203
- Coordinates
- 58.16204, -3.58945
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ousdale Bridge is a circa 1815 rubble bridge constructed by Thomas Telford, spanning the Ousdale Burn. It is a high single-span structure featuring a dressed rubble arch ring flanked by buttresses on both faces. A low dressed parapet runs along the top, and the approaches are splayed. The approximate span is 21 feet. The bridge is now bypassed by a new section of the A9 road. Statutory address: Ousdale Bridge over the Ousdale Burn.
Local climate
Ousdale Bridge receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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