Garden Cottage, Balmoral Castle

1. On site of smaller building erected in 1863. Low gabled, approximately Z-plan (2 gabled ranges running N-S interlocked with narrower, gabled E-W link), single storey and attic, picturesque cottage to S of Balmoral Castle, with eaves swept down over surrounding verandah. Harled concrete panels on concrete base (possibly shuttered concrete); moulded timber cill band and timber quoin strips. Tree trunk, timber columns to verandah with tie brackets. Gables crossed by encircling verandah; each gablehead with small window. 2-leaf doors. Exceptional construction for its date.

N elevation: advanced, gabled bay to right with window; fanlit single door flanked by window on return to left. Single door, flanked by windows and 2 further windows to recessed centre bays and slightly advanced outer gabled bay with 2 windows.

W elevation: 3-bay. Slightly advanced bay at centre with doors; outer bay to right with doors and later window set in re-entrant angle with bay at centre; broader doors to left bay.

S elevation: advanced gabled bay to right with doors, further doors on return to left. Doors to centre and to slightly advanced bay to left. 2 gabled dormers with pointed-arch windows to centre.

Small-pane sash and case windows. 2-leaf doors with panels, plate glass central sections and multi-pane or louvred glass upper sections. Timber barge boards. Grey-green slates; lead flashings. Granite stacks with tall, decorative, barley-sugar cans. Boarded soffit to verandah. Down pipes originally housed within tree trunk columns, some remaining (?).