Pony Stables, Balmoral Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 2010. Stable.

Pony Stables, Balmoral Castle

WRENN ID
gentle-landing-ivy
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
Stable
OS grid reference
NO 256 951
Coordinates
57.04167, -3.22691
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Pony Stables at Balmoral Castle, designed by J and W Smith in 1851, is a single-storey, nine-bay gabled range of stables with a hayloft above. It is located to the east of the main stables and coach house. The building is constructed from squared and coursed granite. The west elevation features nine doors of varying widths for pedestrians and stables, six of which are now blocked with timber boarding and have windows inserted. Above the central bay, there is a piend-roofed, slate-hung dormer for the hayloft. Additionally, there is another hayloft opening in the gablehead of the south return, situated above an off-centre door that has been blinded. The roof is covered with grey slates and has a lead ridge, while the skews are finished with ashlar coping.

Local climate

Pony Stables, 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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