Luib Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Bridge.
Luib Bridge
- WRENN ID
- tangled-step-bracken
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NJ 264 087
- Coordinates
- 57.16404, -3.21719
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Luib Bridge is a large segmental-arched bridge built in 1830, located near Luib Farm along the main Strathdon road. The bridge features a smaller semicircular floodwater arch, a cutwater on the dividing pier, and curved approaches. It is constructed from snecked rubble on a pink ashlar block base, with large narrow voussoirs and narrow rubble bands on the arch vaults. The bridge has a low flat-coped parapet with a simple panel at the center, which is inscribed with 'Luib Bridge / Built by Sir Charles Forbes / of Newe and Edinglassie MDCCCXXX.'
Local climate
Luib Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 92 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 70 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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