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Latitude: 57.9564 / 57°57'22"N
Longitude: -4.0709 / 4°4'15"W
OS Eastings: 277549
OS Northings: 898219
OS Grid: NH775982
Mapcode National: GBR J7BP.L0L
Mapcode Global: WH4D7.F8QX
Plus Code: 9C9QXW4H+HJ
Entry Name: The Mound
Listing Name: Mound Bridge and Keeper's Cottage
Listing Date: 18 March 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 338792
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7022
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200338792
Location: Golspie
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: East Sutherland and Edderton
Parish: Golspie
Traditional County: Sutherland
Tagged with: Bridge Levee Architectural structure
Thomas Telford, 1815-18 alterations, Joseph Mitchell,
1837. 6-arched rubble bridge; dressed rubble arch rings
and parapet; triangular cutwaters on north side. Each arch
fitted with flood-gates and hoisting gear. Small winch
house flanks each side of bridge.
Keeper's cottage; Single storey, wide 3-bay cottage with
advanced and gabled centre bay. Entrance in south
re-entrant angle masked by porch. All harled with tooled
ashlar margins. Hoodmoulded tripartite in centre gable;
similar bipartites in outer bays. Some small pane glazing
survives; paired ridge stacks; slate roof with projecting
joisted eaves.
Strathfleet closed by 1000 yard long eastern mound,
connected to north bank by bridge. Flood-gates hold back
water as tide rises, and allow fresh water to escape as
tide recedes.
Flood-gates now operated by engine. Considerable cost of
$12,500 shared by County of Sutherland, Lord Gower
($8,000, Sutherland Estates) and Parliamentary
Commissioners. 400 acres, previously covered with water
at high tide, drained.
Originally 4 arch bridge; 2 further arches added by
Joseph Mitchell, 1837.
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