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Cottage, still in use, built in 1895 by W Duguid and J Blackie and Sons on the site of smaller building, was erected in 1863. Queen Victoria used to deal with her correspondence from the original cottage, this being rebuilt for her grandchildren. It is a low gabled, approximately Z-plan, single-storey and attic cottage to the south of Balmoral Castle (NO29NE0023), with eaves swept down over a surrounding verandah. It is constructed from harled concrete panels on concrete base (possibly shuttered concrete), with a moulded timber cill band, timber quoin strips, tree trunk timber columns to the verandah with tie brackets, two-leaf doors with panels and timber barge boards. The gables are crossed by the encircling verandah, each gablehead having a small window. The grey-green slate roof has lead flashings, granite stacks with tall, decorative, barley-sugar cans and a boarded soffit to the verandah. The down pipes were originally housed within the tree trunk columns, some of which may be remaining. The north elevation has an advanced, gabled bay to the west with a window and a fanlit single door flanked a by window to the return. Slightly recessed central bays have a single door flanked by windows. A slightly advanced outer gabled bay has two windows. The west elevation is three-bay, with a slightly advanced bay at the centre with doors. The outer bay to the south has doors and later window set in the re-entrant angle with a bay at centre. The north bay has broader doors. The south elevation has an advanced gabled bay to the west with doors, and with further doors on the return. There are more doors to the centre and to a slightly advanced bay to the east. Above are two central gabled dormers with pointed-arch windows.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)