The Old Coach House, 50 Braemar Road, Ballater

The Old Coach House, located at 50 Braemar Road in Ballater, is an early 20th-century, two-storey, three-bay former coach house designed in the Scots Baronial style. It features a crowstepped gable and is situated on an elevated site, positioned at right angles to an adjoining two-storey, three-bay house at the rear. The exterior is constructed from pink coursed granite with grey granite dressings, and a string course separates the two storeys. A corbelled out pepperpot turret is located at the southeast corner. The south elevation includes a central two-leaf timber door with ornamental hinges set in a shallow segmental arch, along with a central bipartite gabled dormerhead flanked by two segmental pedimented dormerheads that break the eaves.

On the west elevation of the house, there is a central six-panelled timber entrance door with a rectangular fanlight, flanked by bipartite windows featuring granite mullions. The central segmental pedimented dormerhead is also flanked by bipartite gabled dormerheads that break the eaves.

The building predominantly has timber sash and case windows, with 12-pane over plate glass on the south side, while other windows feature 9-pane over plate glass. The roof is covered with graded grey slate, and the turret has a candle snuffer roof. Gable end stacks are present, and the building has predominantly cast iron rainwater goods, some of which are decorated with hoppers and lugbands.

Access to the interior of the Coach House was not possible at the time of the survey in 2005, but it is noted that the original room plan is largely intact, featuring three-panel timber doors and some stained glass in the hall window.

The boundary wall consists of a low coped granite rubble wall to the south, complemented by a simple metal railing and interspersed with gable piers, while there is a rubble coped wall to the east.