Ortunan Bridge, Slochd is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Bridge.
Ortunan Bridge, Slochd
- WRENN ID
- cold-flue-thunder
- Grade
- C
- 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 842 237
- Coordinates
- 57.28992, -3.9219
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ortunan Bridge, built around 1729 by General George Wade, is a small rubble bridge. It features a dressed rubble arch ring and has a turf surface with no parapet. The approximate span of the bridge is 10 feet.
Local climate
Ortunan Bridge, Slochd 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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