Drive Bridge, Birkhall is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 2010. Bridge.
Drive Bridge, Birkhall
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-tower-river
- Grade
- C
- 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 349 936
- Coordinates
- 57.02979, -3.07314
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Drive Bridge at Birkhall is a decorative bridge built in the late 19th century, located on the driveway to the northeast of Birkhall. It features cast- and wrought-iron railings designed with interlocking ovals, supported by cast-iron posts, all resting on a panelled wrought-iron girder. The bridge is anchored by granite abutments.
Local climate
Drive 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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