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Latitude: 57.0404 / 57°2'25"N
Longitude: -3.2255 / 3°13'31"W
OS Eastings: 325730
OS Northings: 795030
OS Grid: NO257950
Mapcode National: GBR W7.BDDM
Mapcode Global: WH6MC.F98M
Plus Code: 9C9R2QRF+4Q
Entry Name: Karim Cottage, Balmoral Castle
Listing Name: Balmoral Castle, Karim Cottage
Listing Date: 12 March 2010
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 400412
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB51480
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200400412
Location: Crathie and Braemar
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside
Parish: Crathie And Braemar
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: Cottage
1893, with additions 1899. Single storey, U-plan, bungalow style, gabled cottage with overhanging eaves and service additions. Lathed timber on shuttered concrete base course.
W elevation: 4-bay. 2 windows to left. Gabled entrance bay slightly advanced off-centre to right with tripartite door (2-leaf, panelled door); Indian style lantern in gablehead. Broader gabled bay to outer right, overlapping entrance bay and with broad, shallow canted 4-light window, slate roofed. Window on gabled return to left. Lower service porch recessed to outer left with narrow windows and door, linked to outbuildings.
S elevation: 3-bay. Windows to each bay, that to right advanced and gabled.
E elevation: 2-bay wing of principal rooms to left, recess at centre and service quarters to right.
4-pane sash and case windows; principal windows with external, boarded timber shutters. Purple slates, lead flashings. Stone ridge stacks and 1 wallhead stack.
Outbuildings: en suite stores. Linked to cottage by corrugated roofed passage. Several doors, cast-iron rooflights.
Built to house Mushi Hafiz, Abdul Karim, Queen Victoria's secretary, engaged in 1887. In January 1894 Dr Profeit reported that 'We have built a Bungalow by Command at short notice and were thus unable to use our own wood', it was not referred to as Karim Cottage until September of that year. Main payments for the work were made to Watson and Robb. The cottage is not, surprisingly, of the broad, shallow-eaved or verandah design more typical of 'nabob' bungalows at this date, with only the shutters making concession to a colonial connection.
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