Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

EASTER BALMORAL, CRAIG GOWAN INCLUDING OUTBUILDINGLB51504

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Group Category Details
100000020
Date Added
12/03/2010
Local Authority
Aberdeenshire
Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Parish
Crathie And Braemar
National Park
Cairngorms
NGR
NO 26204 94001
Coordinates
326204, 794001

Description

Probably William Smith, circa 1870, much altered later 19th century. 2-storey L-plan gabled house with 1st floor breaking eaves, and with courtyard formed to rear by abutment at right angles of singles storey stable. Tudor details. Squared and coursed granite, now with harl-pointing; stugged ashlar dressings; base course. Gabled dormerheads.

NE elevation: 3-bay. Granite porch at centre set in re-entrant angle with advanced bay to right, with Tudor-arched doorway, panelled door with panelled fanlight, entablature and decorative cast-iron brattishing; window on return to left. Dormerheaded window to 1st floor behind. Broad, advanced bay to right with canted window at ground, lead-roofed, and 1st floor window in gablehead above; ball finial. Bay to left gabled with full-height canted window with dividing cornice and stepped coping; roll finial.

NW elevation: 4-bay. 2 centre bays recessed, each with window at ground and dormerheaded windows at 1st floor. Outer bay to left, broad slightly advanced gable with 3 grouped windows to each floor, those to outer left blind. Gabled bay advanced to outer right with window to each floor.

SE elevation: courtyard. Service wing recessed to left with gable to outer left and rear door to right. Advanced gable to centre with window at ground left and blinded window above and in flanking bays. Recessed bay return of principal elevation to right with raised chimneybreast, window and blind windows. 2 timber porch additions to rear of principal wing.

Stables: gabled single storey and hayloft block running NW-SE. 2 broad doorways to courtyard and small window; window and hayloft opening to SE gable. Timber extension running at right angles to SW at rear.

4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roofs. Gablet coped skews, bracketted skewputts and kneelers. Wallhead, gablehead and ridge stacks. Cast-iron rooflights to stables.

OUTBUILDING: to S. Single-storey, rectangular-plan slatted timber outbuilding with granite base course. N elevation with pair of sliding, 2-leaf, boarded timber doors. Other boarded timber doors, one part-glazed. 10-pane timber window to far left with top hopper. Timber lean-to to W. Grey slates.

Statement of Special Interest

B Group with Burnside, Craig Gowan Memorial Drinking Basin, Craiglourigan Cottage, 1 Ivy Cottage, 1 and 2 Jubilee Cottages, Post Office Shop and Tigh-Na-Barr, Rhebreck and Rhebreck Water Tank.

Often used on shorter visits by the Royal Family to avoid opening up the castle. Craig Gowan is used as the residence of the Queen's private secretary when on duty during the summer months. The design of the main elevation echoes that at the Glas Allt Shiel. The house continues the Tudor theme used in conjunction with Germanic across the estate. Part of the group at Easter Balmoral.

References

Bibliography

The Royal Encyclopedia (1991), p129.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

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