Clapper Bridge, North Shawbost, Lewis is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 1993.
Clapper Bridge, North Shawbost, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- narrow-chamber-onyx
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NB 260 476
- Coordinates
- 58.33165, -6.68226
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Clapper Bridge at North Shawbost, Lewis, is a road bridge dating to the 19th or early 20th century. It is a clapper-type bridge constructed entirely of drystone rubble, although the low parapets have been repaired with modern concrete. The bridge consists of four short, low spans with flat lintel stones crossing a stream. It is listed as a good example of this now uncommon but early type of bridge construction.
Local climate
Clapper Bridge, North 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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