Vagastie Bridge is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984.
Vagastie Bridge
- WRENN ID
- weathered-tower-gilt
- Grade
- C
- 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 533 272
- Coordinates
- 58.20943, -4.4984
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Vagastie Bridge, also known as Allt a' Chraisg Bridge, is a single-span rubble bridge constructed around 1815 by Thomas Telford. The bridge forms part of the parliamentary road built between Bonar Bridge and Tongue via Altnaharra, completed by 1819, and follows the route of the A836. It is built of rubble with a dressed rubble arch ring, featuring shallow buttresses and a dressed rubble parapet with splayed approaches. A.R.B. Haldane’s “New Ways Through the Glens” (1962) provides further details on pages 139, 188, and 195.
Local climate
Vagastie Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 71 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 0.3°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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