Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands

Date 2007

Event ID 962614

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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Immediately downstream of Conon Bridge on the north bank of the River Conon is an evocative high-quality reminder of Telford’s former Conon Bridge (1809, NH55NW 189). It is an ashlar masonry toll house with a two-storey octagonal tower designed by Telford in 1829 and erected under Joseph Mitchell’s direction in 1830.

The toll house is of the same genre as the Anglesey toll houses on the Holyhead Road, for example at Llanfair PG Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch), erected under Telford’s direction in ca.1825.

R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.

Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.