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Latitude: 57.0311 / 57°1'51"N
Longitude: -3.2474 / 3°14'50"W
OS Eastings: 324385
OS Northings: 794023
OS Grid: NO243940
Mapcode National: GBR W6.C1M1
Mapcode Global: WH6MC.2JWR
Plus Code: 9C9R2QJ3+C2
Entry Name: West Lodge With Gatepiers And Quadrant Walls, Balmoral Castle
Listing Name: Balmoral Castle, West Lodge with Gatepiers and Quadrant Walls
Listing Date: 12 March 2010
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 400431
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB51499
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200400431
Location: Crathie and Braemar
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside
Parish: Crathie And Braemar
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1854. Single storey and attic, picturesque gabled lodge. Stugged, squared and coursed granite with base course. Attic floor slightly jettied on corbel course. Timber mullions.
W elevation: gabled stone porch at centre with stop-chamfered arrises, panelled door and fanlight; small windows on returns. Bipartite windows flanking.
S elevation: 2 blind arrowslits at ground; bipartite in attic. Single storey piend-roofed service buildings to rear advanced and clasping corner to right with small bipartite window.
N elevation: rectangular projecting tripartite window at ground and bipartite to attic. 2 narrow windows to recessed service block to left.
E elevation: gabled wing to right, joined by piend-roofed rear entrance block recessed to centre and left.
Plate glass glazing in sash and case windows. Graded grey slates to overhanging eaves with decorative timber brackets and scrolled barge boards with kingposts and pendant angles to front block. Rooflight to rear. Coped stone stacks.
Gatepiers and quadrant walls: battered, bull-faced square section, squat gatepiers with cornice, flanking drive. Coursed, bull-faced granite quadrant walls with ashlar coping.
Good design in estate style, well detailed and heralding one of the approaches to the castle.
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