Karim Cottage, Balmoral Castle

1893, with additions 1899. Single storey, U-plan, bungalow style, gabled cottage with overhanging eaves and service additions. Lathed timber on shuttered concrete base course.

W elevation: 4-bay. 2 windows to left. Gabled entrance bay slightly advanced off-centre to right with tripartite door (2-leaf, panelled door); Indian style lantern in gablehead. Broader gabled bay to outer right, overlapping entrance bay and with broad, shallow canted 4-light window, slate roofed. Window on gabled return to left. Lower service porch recessed to outer left with narrow windows and door, linked to outbuildings.

S elevation: 3-bay. Windows to each bay, that to right advanced and gabled.

E elevation: 2-bay wing of principal rooms to left, recess at centre and service quarters to right.

4-pane sash and case windows; principal windows with external, boarded timber shutters. Purple slates, lead flashings. Stone ridge stacks and 1 wallhead stack.

Outbuildings: en suite stores. Linked to cottage by corrugated roofed passage. Several doors, cast-iron rooflights.