Rhian Bridge is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979.
Rhian Bridge
- WRENN ID
- tattered-barrel-tide
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- OS grid reference
- NC 563 166
- Coordinates
- 58.1151, -4.44053
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Rhian Bridge, built around 1815 by Thomas Telford, is a single-span rubble bridge carrying the Parliamentary Road (A836) from Bonar Bridge to Tongue. The bridge crosses the Abhainn Sgeamhaidh Burn. It is constructed from rubble, with a dressed rubble arch ring and parapet cope. The bridge features shallow end buttresses and splayed approaches. Construction was completed by 1819. Further information can be found in A.R.B. Haldane’s New Ways Through the Glens (1962), pages 139, 188, and 195.
Local climate
Rhian Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 58 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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