Laxford Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971. Bridge.

Laxford Bridge

WRENN ID
blind-moat-burdock
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 March 1971
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NC 236 468
Coordinates
58.37472, -5.0168
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Laxford Bridge, built around 1835, is a high single span bridge made of rubble. It features a dressed rubble arch ring and a parapet cope, along with shallow end buttresses.

Local climate

Laxford Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,550 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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