Cricket Pavilion, George Heriot's School Recreation Ground, Warriston Gardens, Goldenacre, Edinburgh

Dated 1900. Symmetrical 2-storey Queen Anne gabled pavilion flanked by piend-roofed single storey wings; in middle of recreation ground. Red brick with terracotta decoration. Cast-iron balcony supported on cast-iron pillars to S; bracketed overhanging eaves. Stop-chamfered window surrounds. Decorative carvings to keystones including terracotta shell motif to openings in flanking wings.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: projecting gabled 2-storey bay to centre with diagonal returns; cast-iron balcony to 1st floor supported on slender cast-iron columns with foliate capitals. Entrance in projecting and angled glazed timber porch; 2-leaf glazed and timber panelled doors flanked by margin-paned windows over timber panels; 2-leaf glazed and timber doors to balcony at 1st floor, flanked by margin-paned windows over timber panels, with 3 glazed panels above, all in segmental-arched moulded opening; date (1900) in roundel to gable. Pointed-arched windows to ground and 1st floors in diagonal returns. Flanking single storey wings with bipartite windows including stone stop-chamfered mullions to outer bays and margin-paned glazed and timber doors with rectangular fanlights to inner bays; tile-hung dormers to attics.

N ELEVATION: 3-bay central projecting section with timber panelled door with rectangular fanlight set in brick moulded, keystone and pedimented surround with garlanded terracotta entablature; entrance flanked by segmental-arched windows with terracotta daisies to keystones; 1st floor with small rectangular and keystoned window flanked by segmental-arched windows; date (1900) in roundel in gable;. Flanking single storey wings with single windows to outer bays and bipartite windows with stone stop-chamfered mullions to inner bays.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: small window to centre of each.

Predominantly 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Red tiles with decorative terracotta ridge. Stone coped brick wallhead stacks, curvilinear to central block.

INTERIOR: (seen 2013). Characterised by vertically boarded timber to dado, moulded timber window surrounds and some margin-paned and timber doors. Central half-turn timber stair with landings, turned balustrades. Changing rooms to flanking wings remodelled circa 2001 but retaining some timber boarding.