Wade Bridge, Dalwhinnie is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Wade Bridge, Dalwhinnie
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-trefoil-azure
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NN 638 827
- Coordinates
- 56.91631, -4.23739
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Wade Bridge at Dalwhinnie is a single-span rubble bridge dating from around 1730, constructed during the time of General Wade's military roads program. The bridge crosses the River Truim and features a small flood arch on the western bank. It is built with pinned rubble, and the dressed rubble arch rings spring from natural rock abutments. Originally, the bridge would have had a parapet, but this no longer survives. The roadway surface is now turf. The main arch has a span of approximately 30 feet, while the flood arch measures 9 feet. The bridge was formerly designated a scheduled monument, protected by law, from 1958 to 2016. References to the bridge can be found in J.B. Salmond’s Wade in Scotland and G.R. Curtis’s paper on roads and bridges between Dunkeld and Inverness, published in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Local climate
Wade Bridge, Dalwhinnie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 89 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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