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Road bridge, still in use, built in 1885. The present bridge is a four arch bridge with dressed-stone arch rings and pinned ashlar spandrels. The arches are segmental, and the centre cutwaters are carried up and corbelled out to support rectangular refuges. Simple stepped parapet with saddleback coping. There have been four successive bridges at Ballater. The first bridge was a granite one erected in 1783. It had three main arches in the middle and a small arch at either side. It was washed away by a flood in 1799. The second bridge, also of granite, by Telford, was completed in 1809. It consisted of five arches. It was washed away by the Muckle Spate of 1829. It was subsequently replaced by a wooden structure (NO39NE0179) which was removed for the present bridge in 1885. This fourth bridge was opened by Queen Victoria in 1885.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)