Sheer-Legs, Thornbush Quay, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 February 1990. Hoisting apparatus.
Sheer-Legs, Thornbush Quay, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- mired-corner-bone
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1990
- Type
- Hoisting apparatus
- OS grid reference
- NH 659 465
- Coordinates
- 57.48934, -4.23718
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sheer-Legs at Thornbush Quay in Inverness is a lifting apparatus likely built in 1909 by Rose Street Foundry Co Ltd. It features a pair of angled front stays, each approximately 12 meters long, with their lower ends pivoted on the quay edge and spaced 5.5 meters apart. The upper ends of the front stays are connected by a longer back stay, which is also made of riveted steel. The lower end of the back stay can be adjusted along a screw to tilt the front stays over the quay wall. A hoist, powered by the same motor as the screw, is used to raise and lower a pulley block with a hook that can lift up to 25 tons. The electrically driven mechanisms are contained within a small corrugated-iron hut.
Local climate
Sheer-Legs, Thornbush Quay, Inverness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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