Clapper Bridge, Doune Carloway, Lewis is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 1993. Road bridge.
Clapper Bridge, Doune Carloway, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- first-pier-alder
- Grade
- B
- 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
- Type
- Road bridge
- OS grid reference
- NB 185 409
- Coordinates
- 58.26644, -6.80057
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Clapper Bridge in Doune Carloway, Lewis, is a road bridge built using clapper-type construction, made entirely of drystone rubble. This method represents an early type of bridge construction, and this particular example likely dates from the 19th or early 20th century. The bridge features four flat-lintel spans that cross a stream draining Loch an Duin, and it does not have any parapets.
Local climate
Clapper Bridge, Doune Carloway, Lewis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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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