Building record MAB34150 - VICTORIA BARRACKS, BALLATER

Infantry barracks built in the 1880s to accommodate the Royal Guard when the monarch was in residence in Balmoral, and which has remained in this use since.

Infantry barracks built in the 1880s to accommodate the Royal Guard when the monarch was in residence in Balmoral, and which has remained in this use since. It comprises a group of 7 single storey Tudor style buildings with distinctive tall steeply pitched gables with decorative bargeboards. Constructed of pink and grey coursed granite rubble with sandstone dressings, banded slate roofs, and stone mullions and transoms. They have very low overhanging eaves, and decorative crown profile ridge detail. The group comprises 4 buildings to the east, a caretaker's house to the northeast, guardroom to the northwest and Officers' Mess to the southwest. There is a late 20th Century accommodation block to the west. The boundary walls are of coursed granite rubble with granite coping surmounted by a 20th Century metal security fence. These barracks were built as more spacious and permanent alternative to the original 1860s timber barracks which were built behind Glenmuick Parish Church in the main square of the town.

HISTORIC SCOTLAND, n.d., A SELECTION OF THE CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK'S ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE, p.27 (Bibliographic reference). SAB4449.

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Jun 2 2023 3:50PM