Golspie Bridge, Golspie is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971.
Golspie Bridge, Golspie
- WRENN ID
- haunted-frieze-moss
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NC 840 005
- Coordinates
- 57.97895, -3.96242
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Golspie Bridge is a single-span rubble bridge constructed between 1810 and 1815 by Thomas Telford as part of the parliamentary road linking Bonar Bridge and Wick (now the A9). The bridge is built of rubble with a dressed rubble arch ring and parapet cope, featuring shallow end buttresses. A short obelisk bearing a Gaelic inscription is mounted in the centre of the upstream parapet. The route of the road superseded an earlier road that ran to the seaward side of Dunrobin Castle, and the bridge is now bypassed by a realigned road. Further information can be found in A R B Haldane’s New Ways Through the Glens.
Local climate
Golspie Bridge, Golspie receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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