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Latitude: 57.0325 / 57°1'57"N
Longitude: -3.2137 / 3°12'49"W
OS Eastings: 326434
OS Northings: 794143
OS Grid: NO264941
Mapcode National: GBR W7.BWJN
Mapcode Global: WH6MC.LHWN
Plus Code: 9C9R2QMP+2G
Entry Name: Post Office Shop And Tigh-Na-Barr, Easter Balmoral
Listing Name: Easter Balmoral, Post Office Shop and Tigh-Na-Barr
Listing Date: 12 March 2010
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 400442
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB51510
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Easter Balmoral, Post Office Shop And Tigh-na-barr
ID on this website: 200400442
Location: Crathie and Braemar
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside
Parish: Crathie And Braemar
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1864. 2-storey, gabled shop and house with single storey wing at right angles to rear making L-plan. Squared and coursed granite, base course wit polished dressings.
E elevation: 4-bay with rounded corner to outer right. Post office/shop in 2 bays to right with window to left and door to right; armorial panel above window bearing Royal Arms and legend, 'By appointment'; part-glazed door with pilastered jamb and 2-pane fanlight, 1st floor window above breaking eaves in gabled dormerhead. Curved corner bay recessed, with shop window, corbelled to square above lintel.
Broad outer bay of house, advanced and gabled with window to each floor; door to right, panelled with 2-pane fanlight and window above breaking eaves in gabled dormerhead.
S elevation: gabled bay advanced at centre with blind windows and blind windows flanking.
N elevation: curved corner bay to outer left of advanced gabled bay with window to each floor at centre. Recessed single storey wing with timber gabled porch addition and window to right.
W elevation: single storey wing advanced to left with step-battered chimneybreast and blind arrowslits. Later lean-to masking bays to right at ground; gabled bay to left with 2 1st floor windows.
Timber cross mullioned and transomed casement windows, 4-pane sash and case to rear. Ball finials to gable and dormerheads. Grey slates; scroll-bracketed skewputts and raised, ashlar coped skews. 3 coped gablehead stacks and 1 ridge stack; stone ridge.
B Group with Burnside, Craig Gowan, Craig Gowan Memorial Drinking Basin, Craiglourigan Cottage, 1 Ivy Cottage, 1 and 2 Jubilee Cottages, Rhebreck and Rhebreck Water Tank.
This is probably the merchant's house described as begun in 1864. Purpose designed service building prominent within the estate hamlet and well-detailed. Part of the Easter Balmoral group.
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