Dunbeath Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1971.

Dunbeath Bridge

WRENN ID
crooked-turret-lake
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 April 1971
OS grid reference
ND 159 298
Coordinates
58.24931, -3.43289
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Dunbeath Bridge is a single-span rubble bridge built between 1809 and 1813 by Thomas Telford. It carries the A9 road over the Dunbeath Water. The bridge is constructed of rubble with a dressed rubble arch ring and parapet. It has splayed approaches following the curve of the road. The approximate span is 60 feet. Further details are provided in A R B Haldane’s New Ways Through the Glens (1962) and John Hume’s The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland (1977).

Local climate

Dunbeath Bridge receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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