Sluggan Bridge is a Grade A listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Bridge.
Sluggan Bridge
- WRENN ID
- sheer-vault-heath
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NH 869 220
- Coordinates
- 57.27468, -3.87588
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sluggan Bridge is a military bridge built in 1729-30 by General George Wade, with substantial repairs made between 1830 and 1840. It features a single span and is constructed from rubble, with drystone causeway approaches from both the east and west banks. The dressed rubble arch ring springs from squared rubble footings, and there are slight remains of a parapet along the structure. The bridge has a turf roadway and a pinned rubble buttress located on the south side of the west bank causeway. The approximate span of the bridge is 65 feet.
Local climate
Sluggan Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 58 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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