Annexe, Darroch Leard Hotel, Braemar Road, Ballater

1. 2-storey, irregular plan, multi crow-stepped gabled Scots Baronial house with 3-stage crenellated entrance tower in S re-entrant angle and conical roofed turret to W. Stands on steep site within own grounds on main entrance road to Ballater from W. Pink coursed granite with grey granite dressings. Base course, string course. Rounded arrow slits to gable apex and to top of entrance tower. Crenellated terrace with circular bastion feature with decorative ironwork screen.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: asymmetrical elevations. Entrance elevation to S with angled entrance tower with 6-panel timber door. To left, stair tower with long stair window. To far left, advanced 2-storey gabled bay with tripartite advanced windows.

W elevation, 2-leaf timber door with ornamental hinges in shallow segmental arch to right with corbelled bipartite window above.

Predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows, some bipartite and tripartite with timber mullions. Some narrow timber fixed light plate glass windows to tower. Grey slates. Gable stacks, some with decorated square cans.

INTERIOR: original floor plan largely extant. Good Victorian decorative scheme in place with many original features. Fine cornice plasterwork in public rooms and circular pierced screen to staircase. Stair window with painted glass margins. Circular entrance porch with decorative encaustic tiled floor and niches. Small lead lined sink under back window in 1st storey back corridor.

BOUNDARY WALL: granite rubble with saddleback coping. Low to S, interspersed with tall coped sections. Pair of square gate piers with pyramidal coping.