Former Telephone Exchange, The Surgery, Balmoral Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 2010. Surgery, former telephone exchange.
Former Telephone Exchange, The Surgery, Balmoral Castle
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-flint-swallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 2010
- Type
- Surgery, former telephone exchange
- OS grid reference
- NO 256 951
- Coordinates
- 57.0418, -3.22705
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former Telephone Exchange, now known as The Surgery, was built in 1861 and is a small, single-storey building with a gabled roof and Tudor architectural details. It is located to the east of the stables at Balmoral Castle and is constructed from stugged, coursed granite with a base course and polished dressings.
The west gable features chamfered edges surrounding a central two-leaf door with a hoodmould, flanked by blind gunloops and a blank shield at the top of the gable. On the south elevation, there is a panelled door at the centre with a letterbox fanlight, flanked by windows. The north elevation has a central blind arrowslit, also flanked by windows. The east gable contains two blind arrowslits.
The building has 12-pane glazing in sash and case windows and is topped with graded grey slates. The gable ends have coped skews with kneelers and scroll-bracketed skewputts, along with ball finials. A stone stack is positioned at the centre of the ridge.
Local climate
Former Telephone Exchange, The Surgery, Balmoral Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 88 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 68 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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