Ballater Station

Ballater Station, built in 1866 and remodelled in 1886, is a single-storey, weatherboarded timber former railway station. It features distinctive pierced bargeboards, a porte cochere, and a Royal waiting room. Recently restored in 2005, it now serves as a Tourist Office, museum, and restaurant. The building is cream with red detailing and is located at the northern edge of the town. It has overhanging eaves to the south and north, creating a canopy over the platform on the north side.

The station includes a variety of eight and three over six-pane timber sash and case windows, with gable and piended roofs to the south. Granite ridge stacks topped with octagonal cans are also present.

Inside, the Tourist Office has been largely modernised, but some original features remain, including the remarkable Royal waiting room. This room has a plaster strapwork ceiling and an Adam style swagged cornice. The timber panels are painted in two colours, with reeded Ionic timber pilasters separating the panels. There is a timber chimneypiece with an intact overmantle mirror and tiled cheeks, as well as some panelled timber doors with painted glass in the upper panels in the adjacent Royal toilet, which also features floral decorative glass. The toilet includes a porcelain bowl decorated with floral designs and a timber seat. In the restaurant, there is a classical style marble chimneypiece.

The platform has modern concrete paving and edging, along with an integral weighing machine by H Pooley and Son Ltd of Liverpool.