Old Spey Bridge is a Grade A listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Bridge.

Old Spey Bridge

WRENN ID
nether-cornice-smoke
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Cairngorms National Park
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 January 1971
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NJ 039 263
Coordinates
57.31744, -3.59596
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Spey Bridge, dated 1754, is a three-span bridge constructed from mixed pinned rubble granite, with the height increasing from the north to the south banks. The bridge features tooled mixed granite arch rings that also increase in height and span in the same direction. Canted buttresses rise from triangular cutwaters and end as refuges. It has a tooled ashlar parapet, shallow end buttresses, and splayed approaches. There are metal repair stays present. The approximate spans of the bridge are 25 feet, 45 feet, and 80 feet.

Local climate

Old Spey Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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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