St Devenick Suspension Bridge, Cults, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Footbridge. 1 related planning application.

St Devenick Suspension Bridge, Cults, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
pale-rood-magpie
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 April 1971
Type
Footbridge
Address
St Devenick Suspension Bridge, Cults, Aberdeen, AB15 9NB
OS grid reference
NJ 897 026
Coordinates
57.1143, -2.17056
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Devenick Suspension Bridge is a footbridge built between 1836 and 1837 by the Aberdeen architect John Smith. It features tall, rounded, and tapered ashlar pylons on both the north and south sides, each supporting two cast iron Greek Doric columns with lintels that hold the suspension cables. The bridge has masonry abutments on both the north and south banks; however, due to the widening of the river, the southern abutments are now located on an island in the middle of the river. The iron suspension cables include some bar-link chains. The bridge decking was removed in 1984, and the bridge is no longer in use.

Local climate

St Devenick Suspension Bridge, Cults, Aberdeen receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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