Sean Spittal Bridge is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 1989. Bridge.
Sean Spittal Bridge
- WRENN ID
- cold-cobble-sienna
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1989
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NO 148 800
- Coordinates
- 56.90359, -3.39936
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sean Spittal Bridge, built around 1745, is a straightforward single-arched military road bridge constructed from coursed granite rubble. It does not have a parapet, which was removed in 1988.
Local climate
Sean Spittal Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 95 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 71 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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