Struy Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.

Struy Bridge

WRENN ID
scattered-rood-ivory
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
OS grid reference
NH 401 403
Coordinates
57.42558, -4.66335
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Struy Bridge is an early 19th-century, 5-span bridge built of coursed rubble, constructed between 1803 and 1821 for the Commissioners of Highland Roads and Bridges. The bridge crosses the River Farrar, which forms the boundary between the parishes of Struy and Kilmorack.

Architecturally, the bridge features dressed rubble arch rings which increase in size towards the centre, divided by triangular cut-waters rising to the full height of the bridge. These cut-waters initially form triangular buttresses before terminating as flat pilasters to the parapet. A tooled ashlar string course runs along the top, topped with a roughly tooled cope. Shallow end abutments are present, and the approaches are splayed, terminating in square piers. The spans measure 30 feet, 36 feet, 40 feet, 36 feet, and 30 feet respectively. The bridge is documented in Thomas Telford's Autobiographical Atlas of 1838 (plate 51, no 6).

Local climate

Struy Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 72 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 56 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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