Croe Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Croe Bridge
- WRENN ID
- calm-rood-sparrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NG 958 212
- Coordinates
- 57.23665, -5.38407
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The bridge, dating to circa 1815, consists of three wide segmental arches constructed of rubble with dressed stone forming the arched rings and a low parapet. Triangular cut-waters act as buttresses and a string course runs along the bridge. A splayed approach leads to the bridge. It was constructed as part of the Parliamentary Road built in 1815, connecting Glenmoriston to Shiel Bridge and then to Kintail and Lochalsh. Although still in use, Croe Bridge is now bypassed by the realignment of the A87. References to the bridge appear in the New Statistical Account (xiv, p.207), Telford's Atlas (plate 51), an advertisement for tenders in the Edinburgh Evening Courant of February 27, 1815, and in John Hume’s The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland (ii, 1977, p.290).
Local climate
Croe Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,160 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 71 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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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