Auchindrean Bridge is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Auchindrean Bridge
- WRENN ID
- far-chimney-pearl
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 195 805
- Coordinates
- 57.77849, -5.0365
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Auchindrean Bridge is a fine wrought-iron bridge, dating from approximately 1870 and designed by Sir John Fowler. It is a lenticular-truss bridge with a wooden deck suspended from the truss by lattice girders. The bridge is supported by abutments of coursed rubble, which extend upwards to form semi-circular approach piers. These piers have corbelled semi-circular caps. Sir John Fowler purchased the Inverbroom Estate in 1867. The bridge is considered "unique in Scotland" according to John Hume. Further information can be found in relation to the Corrieshalloc Gorge suspension bridge in Gairloch parish. Details are provided in Thomas Mackay’s The Life of Sir John Fowler (1900), Macdonald’s Transactions Highland and Agricultural Society (1877), and John Hume’s The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland (1977).
Local climate
Auchindrean Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 79 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 65 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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