Kennels, The Croft, Balmoral Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 2010. Kennels.
Kennels, The Croft, Balmoral Castle
- WRENN ID
- floating-spindle-stoat
- 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
- Kennels
- OS grid reference
- NO 244 938
- Coordinates
- 57.02941, -3.24664
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a single-storey kennel constructed in 1850, featuring a rectangular plan and four bays. It has a gabled roof and is situated against rising ground. The exterior is made of stugged and coursed variegated granite, with some areas harled.
On the east elevation, there is a former door on the right that has been blocked and converted into a window. The remaining bays have doors that are enclosed by railings, with small windows to the right of each door. The base of the building has rounded coping made of coursed granite, topped with spearhead iron railings. The doors are boarded and include sliding surveillance hatches.
The south gable is blank, while the north gable features a wide, later addition of a machinery door. The building has ashlar coped skews, a roof covered with graded grey slates and a stone ridge. There is a cast-iron rooflight and a stack located on the rear wallhead of the south side.
Local climate
Kennels, The Croft, 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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