Fassfern Bridge is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 June 1980.
Fassfern Bridge
- WRENN ID
- fallen-lintel-winter
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1980
- OS grid reference
- NN 021 789
- Coordinates
- 56.85967, -5.24737
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fassfern Bridge is a single-span rubble bridge likely designed by Thomas Telford and built between 1803 and 1804. It crosses the An T-Suileag Burn. The bridge is slightly humped, constructed of rough rubble with a dressed rubble arch ring and a low parapet. The western approach is widely splayed. The road connecting Locheil and Loch na Gaul (often referred to as Arisaig) was begun by local landowners in 1803 and finished by the Commissioners for Highland Roads and Bridges between 1804 and 1805. Although the main road has been realigned, the bridge and the original road remain in use. Further details are provided in A.R.B. Haldane’s New Ways Through the Glens (1962).
Local climate
Fassfern Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,090 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 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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