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Latitude: 57.0418 / 57°2'30"N
Longitude: -3.227 / 3°13'37"W
OS Eastings: 325642
OS Northings: 795194
OS Grid: NO256951
Mapcode National: GBR W7.BD27
Mapcode Global: WH6MC.D8KJ
Plus Code: 9C9R2QRF+P5
Entry Name: Former Telephone Exchange, The Surgery, Balmoral Castle
Listing Name: Balmoral Castle, the Surgery, Former Telephone Exchange
Listing Date: 12 March 2010
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 400428
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB51496
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200400428
Location: Crathie and Braemar
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside
Parish: Crathie And Braemar
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: Telephone exchange
Beaton, 1861. Small, single storey, gabled, former telephone exchange, now surgery, with Tudor details, sited to E of stables. Stugged, coursed granite; base course; polished dressings.
W gable: chamfered arrises to 2-leaf hoodmoulded door at centre, blind gunloops flanking and blank shield in gablehead.
S elevation: panelled door at centre with letterbox fanlight, flanked by windows.
N elevation: blind arrowslit at centre, flanked by windows.
E gable: 2 blind arrowslits.
12-pane glazing in sash and case windows. Graded grey slates. Gablet coped skews with kneelers and scroll-bracketed skewputts. Ball finials. Stone stack to centre of ridge.
A group with Venison Larder, Ice House, Stables, Pony Stables, Game Larders and Iron Ballroom, Joiners' Workshop.
Plans and elevations of the Telegraph Room by Beaton are held in the Royal Archives Print Room. The Surgery contains equipment for medical examinations and scales. Important component of the stables group. Indicates the early use of the telephone at Balmoral though as this was not patented by Bell until 1876, the purpose-built Telegraph room must have fulfilled its original function for at least 15 years.
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