Achnagavin Bridge, Claggan is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985. Bridge.
Achnagavin Bridge, Claggan
- WRENN ID
- ghost-quartz-harvest
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1985
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NM 697 496
- Coordinates
- 56.58218, -5.75148
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Achnagavin Bridge, built in 1821, is a simple humpback bridge made of rubble. It features a tooled rubble arch ring and parapet. On the south face of the north parapet, there is an inscribed ashlar plaque with a Gaelic inscription and the date.
Local climate
Achnagavin Bridge, Claggan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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