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

Bridge Of Wester

WRENN ID
strange-parapet-sparrow
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 331 586
Coordinates
58.51121, -3.14976
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Bridge of Wester, built between 1830 and 1835, was designed by Thomas Telford for a bridge at Watten. It features a twin arched structure made of rubble, with dressed rubble segmental arch rings that rise from slender, tooled ashlar triangular cutwaters. The bridge has shallow end buttresses and a dressed rubble parapet cope, along with splayed approaches.

Local climate

Bridge Of Wester receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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