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Former hospital and police barracks, now in use as a lodge and also seasonally remains in police use. It was built in 1870-1871 with later additions. It inherited the name Bridge Lodge from the building to the south-west (NO29SE0048), now named Gate Lodge, and it is also known as Police Cottage. On the 2nd edition OS map it is depicted as a sanatorium. It is a U-plan, single-storey, double cottage, built from squared and coursed granite with a base course, stugged dressings and crowstepped gables. The south cottage is a L-plan, and has a five-bay south elevation. The three bays to the west of the south elevation have a gabled, buttress flanked stone porch with a Tudor-arched entrance, and stop-chamfered reveals. There is a blank panel in the gablehead and scroll-bracketed skewputts and finial. Narrow windows flank the porch and are on the return elevations. The two bays to the east are gabled with a raised chimneybreast dividing. There is a door to the west, part-glazed with a two-pane fanlight, and a window to the east. The return to the west is gabled with a window in an advanced stone panel with a stone, piended roof, and fleur-de-lys stone finial. The west cottage is three-bay and set at right angles with the south cottage. It has a gabled, stoned porch at the centre, stop-chamfered arrises and reveals, a panelled door and fanlight to a Tudor-arched doorway, a shield panel in the gablehead, scroll-bracketed skewputts, a finial stump and narrow windows on the returns. Flanking the porch are windows, and the gabled return elevation to the north has a raised chimneybreast at the centre with a window to the north. There are projecting bays to the rear. A circa 1990, single-storey, L-plan imitation granite concrete block addition continues north-west from the rear wing of the south cottage, and there is a lean-to porch in-fill between cottages. The grey slate roof has clay and lead ridge coping and coped gablehead stacks. The building is part of the entrance ensemble to Balmoral Castle (NO29NE0023).
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