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Latitude: 57.0421 / 57°2'31"N
Longitude: -3.2261 / 3°13'33"W
OS Eastings: 325700
OS Northings: 795220
OS Grid: NO257952
Mapcode National: GBR W7.B69T
Mapcode Global: WH6MC.F80B
Plus Code: 9C9R2QRF+RH
Entry Name: 1 And 2 Riverside Cottages, Balmoral Castle
Listing Name: Balmoral Castle, 1 and 2 Riverside Cottages
Listing Date: 12 March 2010
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 400419
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB51487
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200400419
Location: Crathie and Braemar
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside
Parish: Crathie And Braemar
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: Cottage
J Smith 1853, with 1862 alterations and additions; 1927 converted to cottages by Whitaker. 2-storey, U-plan former laundry and wash-house, sited to NE of stables. Harled with exposed granite margins and quoin strips.
S elevation: symmetrical 6-bay elevation. Bays to right of centre incorporating window to ground floor of projecting gable at outer right, window to each floor of left return and broad 4-panelled timber door with 4-part fanlight below shallow horizontal window in re-entrant angle to left, further window below similar shallow window in bay to left. Bays to left of centre mirror above but bays 2 and 3 aligned more closely.
E and W elevations: 3-bay. Windows to outer bays at each floor flanking blocked openings at centre.
N elevation: mirrors S elevation.
6- and 12-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slates. Ashlar-coped skews and moulded skewputts; coped and margined gablehead and ridge stacks with cans. Small modern rooflights.
The laundry and wash-house are described as built in 1853 in the Archives. Plans and specifications for the 1927 conversion to cottages were prepared by 'Whitaker', possibly a member of the estate staff. In original use, important components of functioning 19th century estate of this calibre.
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