Former sports pavilion, 2 Pavilion Crescent, Mayfield, Edinburgh

Single storey, five-bay, rectangular-plan, Arts and Crafts style former sports pavilion designed by Alexander Lorne Campbell in 1895 for the Craigmillar Park Golf Club.

The pavilion features structural timber framed elevations with harling and painted timber, a steeply-pitched gambrel roof and a brick base course. The roof is covered by grey-green slates with red clay ridge tiles and includes ventilating louvres to the gablehead of the gambrel and exposed rafter ends at the eaves.

The northeast (principal) elevation has tripartite windows in the outer bays, a three-bay loggia to the centre divided by timber columns and low railing in front of the recessed bays containing a central door flanked by two symmetric windows.

There are tripartite windows to the side elevations (part blocked at east) and at southeast at rear. The windows are timber casement and contain multi-pane glazing and painted historic ironmongery.

The interior was seen in 2025. Refitted in 2017/18 with timber insulation panels covering the walls to ceiling height. The timber rafters of the roof structure are exposed. Historic ironmongery on door and windows has been retained.

Historical background

The building was the first clubhouse for the Craigmillar Park Golf Club from 1895 and it is shown at the northwest corner of the Golf Course on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map (Revised 1905, Published 1909).

Craigmillar Park Golf Club course was a nine hole course constructed on the lands of the Gilmours of Liberton and Craigmillar. The end of the 19th century was a time of rapid growth in golf and the new Club advertised its accessibility by train and tram for city workers. The Golf Club was unusual in having no restrictions on membership and was open to women players and to visiting women's and mixed clubs from the outset. The success of membership recruitment (300 at the time of the pavilion opening) resulted in a need for a clubhouse, which was opened on 5 October 1895.

In 1904 renewed feuing led to the loss of one of the fairways, and consequently the club moved to its present location, off Observatory Road, in 1907. The pavilion was sold to the Edinburgh Northern Hockey Club, but was also used by other sports clubs and the local St Margaret's Girls school used it until 1976 as changing room when it was taken over by Moray House of the University of Edinburgh.

The building was altered and extended to the rear by RD Cameron & Gibb in 1980. It was refurbished and relocated within the curtilage of the original sport field 52.5 metres south of its original position and re-orientated through 180 degrees in 2017/18 as part of a housing development. An extension to the rear was removed at the same time.