Balavil Bridge Over Raitts Burn is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979. Bridge.
Balavil Bridge Over Raitts Burn
- WRENN ID
- buried-pilaster-woodpecker
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NH 788 024
- Coordinates
- 57.09726, -4.00173
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Balavil Bridge, built around 1800, is a single span bridge made of rubble with a dressed rubble arch ring. It features a later 19th century parapet made of carved polished ashlar, which includes panelled and centrally corniced piers. Decorative cast-iron railings are positioned along the splayed approach to the bridge.
Local climate
Balavil Bridge Over Raitts Burn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 86 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 68 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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