Estate Bridge Over Craigston Burn, Craigston Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1995.
Estate Bridge Over Craigston Burn, Craigston Castle
- WRENN ID
- strange-foundation-ebony
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1995
- OS grid reference
- NJ 760 549
- Coordinates
- 57.5841, -2.40175
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1885, this single-span bridge crosses Craigston Burn and serves as an access point to Craigston Castle. The bridge is constructed in a Baronial style, using locally sourced, tooled red sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. It features an elliptical arch ring built with bull-faced voussoirs, culminating in a prominent keystone. A stepped crenellated parapet runs along the bridge's length, flanked by semi-circular buttresses at each end, also crenellated and incorporating small refuges. A monogram incorporating the initials "PU" is present on the east face, and a date marks the west face. The approximate span of the bridge is 7.00 metres.
The bridge's construction coincided with the creation of a new driveway to Craigston Castle, also in 1885. The monogram "PU" references Pollard Urquhart, the owner of Craigston Castle at the time. The Craigston Burn acts as the boundary between the castle estate and Turriff Parish.
References include publications by H Gordon Slade detailing Craigston Castle and its gardens.
Local climate
Estate Bridge Over Craigston Burn, Craigston Castle receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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