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Workshops/Stores, Balmoral Castle

A Category C Listed Building in Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.041 / 57°2'27"N

Longitude: -3.2261 / 3°13'33"W

OS Eastings: 325700

OS Northings: 795102

OS Grid: NO257951

Mapcode National: GBR W7.BD93

Mapcode Global: WH6MC.F904

Plus Code: 9C9R2QRF+9H

Entry Name: Workshops/Stores, Balmoral Castle

Listing Name: Balmoral Castle, Workshops/Stores

Listing Date: 12 March 2010

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 400432

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB51500

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200400432

Location: Crathie and Braemar

County: Aberdeenshire

Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside

Parish: Crathie And Braemar

Traditional County: Aberdeenshire

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Description

Later and late 19th century. 3 timber, single storey gabled workshops/stores, sited to SE of stables, by cast-iron former ballroom. Slatted timber with boarded doors and doors with boarding spaced for ventilation.

N workshop: 3 sliding machinery doors to S at centre and left, 3 fixed 4-pane windows flanking; implement shed to right with cast-iron columns and 2-leaf doors. W gable end with 2 doors at ground and loft door above, with loading platform. Purple slates and cast-iron rooflights. Clay ridge. Brick ridge stack.

S workshop: L-plan. Variety of glazing to windows to S and 2 doors; brick stack in re-entrant angle formed with shorter wing running S. 2-leaf doors to W gable. Graded grey slates, lead flashings and 2 metal ventilators. Cast-iron rooflights.

E store: 2-leaf doors to W elevation. Corrugated roof.

Statement of Interest

The workshops are of interest as components of the Castle estate, proximity to stables, ballroom, larders and Karim Cottage, and for their form and materials. Reference is made in the archives to the erection of a new fuel shed in 1875, possibly the N workshop/ store described here.

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