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

Achingale Bridge

WRENN ID
quiet-iron-blackthorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 April 1971
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
ND 243 543
Coordinates
58.4704, -3.29865
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Achingale Bridge was designed by Thomas Telford and built between 1812 and 1817, with a widening on the north side completed in 1933. The bridge features three segmental arches, with the central arch being larger than the others. It is constructed from rubble, tooled rubble, and has ashlar dressings. The arch rings are made of tooled rubble and are faced with concrete on the north side. There is an ashlar string course and parapet, along with triangular cutwaters. The bridge has shallow end buttresses and splayed approaches, with an overall span of 90 feet.

Local climate

Achingale 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 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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