Joiner's Workshop, Iron Ballroom, Balmoral Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 2010. Workshop, ballroom.
Joiner's Workshop, Iron Ballroom, Balmoral Castle
- WRENN ID
- idle-ledge-elm
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 2010
- Type
- Workshop, ballroom
- OS grid reference
- NO 256 950
- Coordinates
- 57.04096, -3.22689
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Joiner's Workshop, also known as the Iron Ballroom, is a building located at Balmoral Castle, constructed in 1851 by Edward T Bellhouse and Company, produced by Eagle Foundry in Manchester. Originally designed as a ballroom, it now serves as a carpenter's workshop. The structure features corrugated iron sheets set on a concrete base, framed by panelled cast-iron pilasters with stylised capitals that support a cornice above the eaves gutter.
The entrance is located at the gabled end and includes a sliding machinery door, topped by a small-pane strip fanlight. The building has seven bays on each side, with four windows on each side consisting of flush, 16-pane timber casement windows. There are also two modern, fixed-pane, horizontal windows added to the left return elevation. The rear gable end is blank, while the building is adorned with scalloped barge boards and finials. The roof is made of corrugated material and includes flush rooflights and decorative brattishing, along with a gabled ventilator at the mid ridge, also featuring brattishing.
Inside, the workshop is lined with timber boarding and has a coombed roof that is embrasured to the rooflights.
Local climate
Joiner's Workshop, Iron Ballroom, 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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