Thurso Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 February 1975. Bridge.

Thurso Bridge

WRENN ID
western-pilaster-vermeil
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 February 1975
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
ND 117 681
Coordinates
58.5925, -3.51959
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Thurso Bridge, designed by engineers Macbey and Gordon from Elgin, was completed in 1887. This four-arch bridge features a long southeast approach causeway with a small arch that spans a mill lade. The structure is built of coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. It has four keystoned segmental-headed ashlar arch rings, with triangular cutwaters that rise as canted buttresses, terminating in facetted caps that are incorporated into a tooled ashlar coped balustrade. A string course runs along the bridge, and there are four pairs of cast-iron lamp standards mounted on alternate buttress caps.

Local climate

Thurso Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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