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Including Timber Shed, Rhebreck, Easter Balmoral

A Category B Listed Building in Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.0298 / 57°1'47"N

Longitude: -3.2201 / 3°13'12"W

OS Eastings: 326040

OS Northings: 793850

OS Grid: NO260938

Mapcode National: GBR W7.C1MH

Mapcode Global: WH6MC.HKVQ

Plus Code: 9C9R2QHH+WX

Entry Name: Including Timber Shed, Rhebreck, Easter Balmoral

Listing Name: Easter Balmoral, Rhebreck, Including Timber Shed

Listing Date: 12 March 2010

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 400443

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB51511

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Easter Balmoral, Rhebreck, Including Timber Shed

ID on this website: 200400443

Location: Crathie and Braemar

County: Aberdeenshire

Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside

Parish: Crathie And Braemar

Traditional County: Aberdeenshire

Tagged with: Architectural structure

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Description

Probably William Smith, 1860. 2-storey gabled L-plan house with 1st floor breaking eaves. Tudor details. Squared and coursed granite; base course.

NE elevation: 3-bay. Stone, gabled porch at centre in re-entrant angle formed with slightly advanced bay to right, with Tudor-arched doorway, panelled door and fanlight; narrow window on return to left. Broad gabled bay to right with window at ground and hoodmoulded window in gablehead at 1st floor. Bay to left with window at ground and swept-gabled dormer window breaking eaves above.

NW elevation: gable to left with raised chimneybreast flanked by windows at ground (blind to left) and small 1st floor window to right. Larger window to right with gabled dormer breaking eaves at 1st floor above.

SE elevation: gable end of entrance wing to right with narrow window and blind window at ground and blind arrowslits flanking corbelled chimneybreast above.

Later gabled, stone projection added(?) by re-entrant angle to rear.

Cross windows to NE elevation. Small-pane sash and case windows to remaining elevations. Overhanging eaves. Grey slates. Gablehead stacks. Decorative loop barge boards to porch and dormer windows, with kingposts and finials.

TIMBER SHED: to S. Rectangular-plan, gabled, slatted timber shed, partially set into steep slope to rear of house. Multi-pane fixed timber windows; graded grey slates.

Statement of Interest

B Group with Burnside, Craig Gowan, Craig Gowan Memorial Drinking Basin, Craiglourigan Cottage, 1 Ivy Cottage, 1 and 2 Jubilee Cottages, Post Office Shop and Tigh-Na-Barr and Rhebreck Water Tank.

Masonry work was carried out by Beaton, carpentry by Watson, slating by Duncan and plasterwork by Mitchell. A particularly well designed example of the Tudor styled properties across the estate with distinctive barge boarding. Part of the Easter Balmoral group.

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