Spean Bridge Over River Spean is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Spean Bridge Over River Spean
- WRENN ID
- silent-sill-finch
- 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
- NN 221 817
- Coordinates
- 56.89256, -4.92058
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Spean Bridge, built over the River Spean in 1819, was designed by Thomas Telford. It was widened in 1932 by Mears and Carus Wilson, Architects. The bridge is a high, three-arch structure constructed of squared, dressed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings, with a concrete widening concealed within the original stonework. The central arch is a wide, high segmental head with tooled ashlar, flanked by triangular cutwaters that rise to the full height of the bridge as shallow, giant pilasters, and lower, round-headed arch rings at the outer sides. A high parapet of dressed rubble is topped with a tooled squared ashlar coping stone. The bridge replaced General Wade's High Bridge of 1736, located further downstream. The widening occurred on the northeastern side of the bridge. References to the bridge appear in Thomas Telford’s Autobiographical Atlas (1838) and John Hume’s Industrial Archaeology of Scotland (1977).
Local climate
Spean Bridge Over River Spean sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,870 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 77 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 59 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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