Royal Bridge, Ballater is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Bridge.

Royal Bridge, Ballater

WRENN ID
winding-stair-hawthorn
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
NO 372 955
Coordinates
57.04706, -3.03647
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Royal Bridge in Ballater, designed by engineers Jenkins & Marr in 1885, is a four-span segmental arched bridge over the River Dee that serves as a gateway to Ballater from the east. It is constructed from squared and coursed pink granite, featuring pinning stones. The bridge has a simple stepped parapet with saddleback coping and bullnosed cutwaters. The central cutwaters are extended and corbelled out to create a pair of recessed refuges that include inscriptions. Additionally, there are pairs of engaged circular piers at both the west and east approaches, each topped with rounded caps.

Local climate

Royal Bridge, Ballater sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 88 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 65 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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