Railway Viaduct, Golspie is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984.
Railway Viaduct, Golspie
- WRENN ID
- winding-grate-moon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1984
- OS grid reference
- NC 840 007
- Coordinates
- 57.9809, -3.96259
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Golspie Railway Viaduct is a high single-span bridge built between 1870 and 1871. It crosses the Golspie Burn. The viaduct is constructed from rubble with dressed rubble facing, featuring a single arch ring, and a low parapet also of dressed rubble. Some concrete buttressing provides additional support. As noted by John Hume in The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland, volume 2, page 317, the viaduct is an important example of railway infrastructure from the late 19th century.
Local climate
Railway Viaduct, Golspie receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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