Wick Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1971. Bridge.

Wick Bridge

WRENN ID
over-pier-laurel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 April 1971
Type
Bridge
Address
Wick Bridge, KW1 4AJ
OS grid reference
ND 362 508
Coordinates
58.44155, -3.09397
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Wick Bridge, built between 1875 and 1877, was designed by engineer Murdoch Paterson. It is a large bridge featuring three arches made of dressed stone. The bridge has wide, shallow arches supported by rounded cut-waters. It includes a string course and a wide carriageway with coped parapets.

Local climate

Wick Bridge receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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