Victoria Barracks, Abergeldie Road, Ballater

Victoria Barracks, built around 1880, is a group of seven single-storey Tudor-style buildings that serve as barracks. They feature tall, steeply pitched gables adorned with decorative bargeboards. The buildings are constructed from pink and grey coursed granite rubble with sandstone dressings, and they have a base course. The eaves are very low and overhang slightly, with a decorative crown profile ridge detail. The roofs are made of banded slate, and the windows have stone mullions and transoms. The layout includes four buildings to the east, a caretaker's house to the northeast, a guardroom to the northwest, and an Officers' Mess to the southwest. To the west, there is a late 20th-century accommodation block. The barracks are located to the northeast of the town, surrounded by large Victorian villas.

The caretaker's house at the entrance to the east has five bays and features a nearly central boarded timber door with a rectangular fanlight above. To the right, there is a tripartite window with granite mullions, and to the far right, an advanced lower gable with a deeply recessed two-pane fixed light window in a wide pointed arch, similar to the one at the far left. The house also has bipartite and tripartite windows with granite mullions.

The four buildings that serve as offices, mess blocks, and kitchens are situated to the east and have a similar design. To the west, there are central boarded timber doors with piended porches supported by timber brackets resting on stone corbels. The northern elevation features a three-bay design, with an advanced gable to the right that includes a tripartite window with granite mullions and transom, along with a blind arrow slit above.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with some uPVC. The roofs have grey and green graded and banded slating, and there is a variety of ridge and external stacks, some with octagonal cans. The downpipes are grey painted cast iron, with some being square and featuring decorative hoppers.

The interior has been extensively modernised, with simple cornicing in the Officers' Mess and a vaulted cell in the guardroom building. The boundary walls are high, made of coursed granite rubble with granite coping, and topped with a 20th-century metal security fence.