4 Dairy Cottages And Offices, Balmoral Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 2010. Cottage.
4 Dairy Cottages And Offices, Balmoral Castle
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-balcony-grain
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 2010
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NO 260 944
- Coordinates
- 57.03563, -3.2204
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4 Dairy Cottages and Offices at Balmoral Castle were built between 1862 and 1863, with additions made in 1865. This single-storey and attic cottage features Tudor details and has gabled offices located behind it. The building is constructed from coursed granite with polished dressings and includes a base course.
The northeast elevation is symmetrical with five bays, featuring a central gabled entrance bay that has a panelled two-leaf door and a window in the gablehead. On either side of the entrance, there are later bipartite windows and a small window in the outer bays. The gabled return elevations have pointed arch windows in the attic and blind arrowslits at the ground level, with a small window to the left of the southwest elevation.
To the northwest, there are three irregular gables of the former cowhouse and offices arranged at the rear, two of which have tall segmental-arched carriage openings. The windows are fitted with 4-pane glazing in sash and case style. The roof is covered with graded grey slates and includes modern rooflights. The building features ashlar coped skews with bracketed skewputts and gablehead stacks.
Local climate
4 Dairy Cottages And Offices, 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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