Bridge, Shawbost, Lewis is a Grade C listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 1993.
Bridge, Shawbost, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- lone-plaster-sorrel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1993
- OS grid reference
- NB 257 466
- Coordinates
- 58.322, -6.68524
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a late 19th century road bridge located in Shawbost, Lewis. It features a single segmental arch spanning a stream, constructed from squared rubble blocks. The abutments are shallowly battered. A low parapet with coping slabs runs along the top of the bridge, and wing walls, also of rubble with concrete coping, were added in the 20th century. The statutory address is Shawbost Bridge.
Local climate
Bridge, Shawbost, Lewis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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