Bridge Of Westfield is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.
Bridge Of Westfield
- WRENN ID
- slow-wicket-root
- Grade
- B
- 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 055 641
- Coordinates
- 58.5555, -3.62475
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century rubble bridge consisting of two arches of differing sizes. The wider and higher arch spans Forss Water, while the second serves as a flood arch over a field. The arches are faced with dressed rubble. Triangular cutwater-buttresses flank the arches, and low dressed rubble parapets run along the bridge's sides. Drainage vents are positioned above the centre of each arch. The overall span is approximately 60 feet. The bridge is referenced in John Hume’s The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland (Volume 2, 1977, page 192).
Local climate
Bridge Of Westfield sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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