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Balmoral Estates, Glen Gelder, Gelder Shiel And Outbuilding
Bothy (20th Century) (1983), Lodge (19th Century) (1865), Stable (19th Century) (1865)
Site Name Balmoral Estates, Glen Gelder, Gelder Shiel And Outbuilding
Classification Bothy (20th Century) (1983), Lodge (19th Century) (1865), Stable (19th Century) (1865)
Alternative Name(s) Balmoral Castle; Ruidh Na Bhan Righ
Canmore ID 199475
Site Number NO28NE 8
NGR NO 2571 8999
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/199475
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Crathie And Braemar
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
T-plan gabled shieling and separate store building. Later 19th century.
This site was recorded as part of the Listed Buildings Recording Programme (LBRP) for 2001-02.
Information from RCAHMS (NMC), 2002.
Note (6 July 2022)
NO28NE 8 NO 25732 89997
Glengelder Lodge and its associated stable, now a bothy, are situated in the upper reaches of Glen Gelder about 4.5km from Balmoral Castle. The buildings stand within a contemporary plantation and there are a series of peat cuttings about 100m to the E and 200m to the NE. The lodge bears an inscribed panel reading ‘Ruidh na Bhan Righ 1865’.
‘Glengelder Lodge’ is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map as two roofed buildings in open moorland, beside the stalker’s path leading from Balmoral to the high ground to the SSE (Aberdeenshire, xcix, 1869). It was described at the time as ‘a small cottage and stop’ in the process of being ‘fitted up by Her Majesty, it being her property’ (OS Name Books, Aberdeenshire, No. 20, p.8). By 1900, when the 6-inch map was revised, the buildings were shown in a stand of trees and the name ‘Gelder Shiel’ had been applied (Aberdeenshire, xcix, 1902). The lodge and the adjacent bothy are depicted roofed on the current OS 1:10,000 map with one annotated ‘Bothy’.
The stable was adopted by the MBA in 1983 and renovated in 2015.
Information from HES Archaeological Survey (D D M Bratt) 6 July 2022
(Allan 2017, 180-1)
