Clapper Bridge, Aultbea is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.
Clapper Bridge, Aultbea
- WRENN ID
- first-pavement-juniper
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- OS grid reference
- NG 873 889
- Coordinates
- 57.83965, -5.58372
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Clapper Bridge at Aultbea is a late 18th and early 19th century structure, built as a seven-arch clapper bridge. It is constructed of rubble stone, with a rubble parapet. A metal guard rail has been installed on the west side. Clapper bridges, characterised by arches formed from single or multiple stone slabs, are typical of the northwest coast. The bridge was scheduled for bypass in 1983. Its statutory address is Aultbea, Bridge over Allt Beithe.
Local climate
Clapper Bridge, Aultbea sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,780 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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