Girder Bridge, Crathie, Balmoral Estates is a Grade A listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 November 1976. Bridge.

Girder Bridge, Crathie, Balmoral Estates

WRENN ID
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Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Cairngorms National Park
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 November 1976
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NO 262 949
Coordinates
57.03945, -3.21761
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Girder Bridge at Crathie, part of the Balmoral Estates, was designed by the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and built between 1856 and 1858 by ironfounder R Brotherhood from Chippenham, Wiltshire. This single span bridge features a wrought iron plate girder construction, with regularly pierced iron-plate parapets and distinctive visible riveting. The bridge is supported by coursed rock-faced granite abutments, which are topped with square granite piers, and it has curved granite approach walls.

Local climate

Girder Bridge, Crathie, Balmoral Estates sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 88 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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