Bridge Of Avon is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1986.
Bridge Of Avon
- WRENN ID
- kindled-spandrel-holly
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- OS grid reference
- NJ 149 201
- Coordinates
- 57.264, -3.41154
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bridge of Avon is a two-arch rubble bridge dating from 1754, with partial reconstruction in 1829. The bridge is higher on the western bank than the eastern bank. It features unequal stone arch rings, with the larger, western arch spanning the main stream. Triangular cut-waters are present. The original parapet was removed to allow for a temporary girder bridge. Some repairs have been made using breeze blocks. The bridge was damaged around 1976. A plaque near Tomintoul, at the Well of Lecht, commemorates the construction of the road in 1754, built "from here to Spey by the 33rd Reg," which crosses the bridge. A smaller arch was destroyed in the 1829 floods. References include Thomas Dick Lauder’s AN ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT FLOODS OF AUGUST 1829 (1830), Victor Gaffney’s TOMINTOUL ITS GLENS AND ITS PEOPLE (1970), and John Hume’s THE INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND (1977).
Local climate
Bridge Of Avon sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 81 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 62 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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