Rope Bridge, Birkhall is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 2010. Bridge.
Rope Bridge, Birkhall
- WRENN ID
- stranded-hammer-sable
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 2010
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NO 349 925
- Coordinates
- 57.01924, -3.07244
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Rope Bridge at Birkhall, built by Messrs Harpers & Company Patent in Aberdeen around 1885, is a pedestrian suspension bridge that spans approximately 60 feet. It features an iron deck supported by steel wire ropes. The bridge is flanked by panelled octagonal cast-iron gatepiers, each about 7 feet high, which have decorative capitals and ornate ball finials, along with a foundry plate. The entrance is marked by hooped iron gates.
Local climate
Rope Bridge, Birkhall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 89 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 67 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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