Coulags Bridge is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Coulags Bridge
- WRENN ID
- sharp-arch-cedar
- Grade
- C
- 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 957 451
- Coordinates
- 57.45012, -5.40628
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Coulags Bridge is a single-span bridge built circa 1815 by Thomas Telford and subsequently rebuilt or extensively repaired to its original design in 1880. The bridge crosses the Fionn-Ahainn River and lies on the parliamentary road between Contin and Strome Ferry, built between 1813 and 1819. The bridge’s construction is of rubble, with a dressed rubble arch ring and parapet cope. It features spayed approaches and shallow end buttresses. Advertisements for tenders appeared in the Inverness Courier on February 12, 1880. A.R.B. Halkdane’s “New Ways Through the Glens” (1962) provides further detail on pages 98 and 137.
Local climate
Coulags Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,890 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 46 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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