Chamois Deer Statue And Fountain On Western Parterre, Balmoral Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 2010. Fountain.

Chamois Deer Statue And Fountain On Western Parterre, Balmoral Castle

WRENN ID
long-marble-plover
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
Fountain
OS grid reference
NO 254 950
Coordinates
57.04032, -3.23094
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Chamois Deer Statue and Fountain, located on the western parterre of Balmoral Castle, features a fountain basin that dates to around 1855. The statue, created by M Geiss in Berlin in the late 19th century, was painted in 1929 and refurbished by Charles Henshaw in 1986. The statue is a carved bronze depiction of a chamois deer, painted to appear lifelike, and is set within a recessed, circular basin made of pink granite. The deer stands on a rocky outcrop atop a pink granite cubic pedestal, which has cast-iron lion mask spouts on each face.

Local climate

Chamois Deer Statue And Fountain On Western Parterre, 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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