Alness Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Bridge.
Alness Bridge
- WRENN ID
- first-storey-equinox
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NH 654 696
- Coordinates
- 57.69629, -4.25908
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Alness Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford, was built between 1811 and 1816. It features a single arch and is constructed from coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. The bridge has a chamfered ashlar single arch ring, two string courses, and an ashlar coped parapet. Additionally, there are shallow end buttresses.
Local climate
Alness Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 46 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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