Bridge Of Rora is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. 1 related planning application.
Bridge Of Rora
- WRENN ID
- brooding-cellar-solstice
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NK 041 492
- Coordinates
- 57.53374, -1.93165
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bridge of Rora is an early 18th-century or earlier bridge, likely built with some earlier elements. It spans a river and comprises two semi-circular arches over the watercourse itself, alongside two smaller flood arches. The bridge is constructed from squared rubble, which has been pointed with harl. The voussoirs (the wedge-shaped stones forming the arches) of the two south-eastern arches are original, and two-thirds of the intrados (the inner surface of the arch) is also original. The remainder of the intrados was rebuilt during a widening process undertaken around 1860. Historic records describe the bridge as old and dilapidated.
Local climate
Bridge Of Rora receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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