Former sports pavilion, 2 Pavilion Crescent, Mayfield, Edinburgh

This is a single-storey, five-bay, rectangular Arts and Crafts style former sports pavilion, designed by Alexander Lorne Campbell in 1895 for the Craigmillar Park Golf Club. It is located at 2 Pavilion Crescent, Mayfield, Edinburgh.

The building’s structure is timber-framed with harled and painted timber cladding, a steeply-pitched gambrel roof, and a brick base course. The roof is covered with grey-green slates, 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 features tripartite windows in the outer bays and a central three-bay loggia divided by timber columns and a low railing in front of the recessed bays, which contain a central door flanked by two symmetrical windows. Tripartite windows are also present on the side elevations (with part of the east elevation blocked) and at the southeast rear. The windows are timber casements featuring multi-pane glazing and historic ironmongery.

Internally, the pavilion was inspected in 2025. It was refitted in 2017/18, with the walls and ceiling lined with timber insulation panels, although the timber rafters of the roof structure remain exposed. Historic ironmongery has been retained on the doors and windows.

The building originally served as the first clubhouse for the Craigmillar Park Golf Club from 1895. It was situated at the northwest corner of the golf course and is marked on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, revised in 1905 and published in 1909. The golf course had been constructed on lands belonging to the Gilmours of Liberton and Craigmillar. The club benefited from its accessibility by train and tram, and was unusual for its time in welcoming both women players and visiting women’s and mixed clubs. Owing to a successful recruitment drive, reaching 300 members at the time of the pavilion's opening, a clubhouse was necessary.

In 1904, changes to the feuing arrangements resulted in the loss of a fairway, and the club relocated to its current site, off Observatory Road, in 1907. The pavilion was subsequently sold to the Edinburgh Northern Hockey Club, and was also used by other sports clubs and St Margaret's Girls school until 1976, when it was taken over by Moray House of the University of Edinburgh.

In 1980, the building was altered and extended to the rear by RD Cameron & Gibb. During refurbishment in 2017/18, it was relocated within the curtilage of the original sports field, approximately 52.5 meters south of its original position and re-orientated through 180 degrees, as part of a housing development. An extension to the rear was removed at this time.