Glassel Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1972. Bridge.
Glassel Bridge
- WRENN ID
- upper-crypt-larch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1972
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NO 657 992
- Coordinates
- 57.08283, -2.56745
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Glassel Bridge is a single segmental arch bridge constructed from rubble with dressed voussoirs. The parapets widen at the abutments, and there are terminal piers topped with cone-shaped finials. The keystone is dated 1797.
Local climate
Glassel Bridge receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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