Road Bridge Over River Shiel, Shiel Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Bridge.
Road Bridge Over River Shiel, Shiel Bridge
- WRENN ID
- little-turret-owl
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NM 676 688
- Coordinates
- 56.75347, -5.80161
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Road Bridge over the River Shiel at Shiel Bridge was built in 1935. It is a wide bridge featuring three arches, constructed with a concrete face and bullfaced rubble, accented with tooled ashlar dressings. The bridge has three segmental-headed ashlar arch rings, with the center arch being slightly wider. Rounded cutwaters rise as giant pilasters, which have corbelled heads that form semi-circular cutwaters. The end piers also feature similar giant pilasters. The bridge is topped with a crenellated parapet that is splayed at the north end, where it is approached by a long causeway that crosses a small, single-span flood bridge built in a similar style.
Local climate
Road Bridge Over River Shiel, Shiel Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,280 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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