Bridge Of Achaver is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.
Bridge Of Achaver
- WRENN ID
- sheer-wall-scarlet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- OS grid reference
- ND 262 373
- Coordinates
- 58.31842, -3.26026
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bridge of Achaver is an earlier 19th century bridge built of rubble stone. It is a high single span, with a dressed rubble arch ring, slightly skewed to its original alignment. Wide, winged retaining buttresses are located at the north end of the bridge. A low parapet, also of dressed rubble, runs along the top. There is a splayed approach at the south side, and the approximate span of the bridge is 20 feet. Situated over the Clyth Burn at Bridge of Achaver.
Local climate
Bridge Of Achaver receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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