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

Dated 1900, this Queen Anne gabled pavilion stands within the recreation ground of George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh. It is a symmetrical building, composed of a two-storey central pavilion flanked by single-storey, piend-roofed wings. The building is constructed of red brick with terracotta decoration and sits centrally within its recreation ground setting.

The architectural style features red brick with terracotta decorative elements, a cast-iron balcony supported by cast-iron pillars with foliate capitals, and bracketed overhanging eaves. Window surrounds are stop-chamfered, and keystones feature decorative carvings, including a terracotta shell motif to openings in the flanking wings.

The south (principal) elevation has a projecting gabled two-storey bay with diagonal returns. A cast-iron balcony is positioned on the first floor, supported by slender cast-iron columns. An angled, glazed timber porch provides the entrance, featuring timber-panelled and glazed doors, flanked by margin-paned windows over timber panels. The first-floor balcony access consists of timber-panelled and glazed doors, also flanked by margin-paned windows over timber panels, with three glazed panels above within a segmental-arched opening. The date “1900” is displayed in a roundel to the gable. Pointed-arched windows are present on the ground and first floors within the diagonal returns. The flanking single-storey wings have bipartite windows, with stone stop-chamfered mullions to the outer bays, and margin-paned glazed and timber doors with rectangular fanlights to the inner bays, with tile-hung dormers to the attics.

The north elevation features a projecting three-bay central section with a timber-panelled door and rectangular fanlight set within a brick, moulded surround, keystone, and pedimented surround featuring a garlanded terracotta entablature. The entrance is flanked by segmental-arched windows with terracotta daisies to the keystones. The first floor has a small, keystoned window flanked by segmental-arched windows, with the date “1900” displayed in a roundel on the gable. The single-storey flanking wings incorporate single windows to outer bays and bipartite windows with stone stop-chamfered mullions to the inner bays.

The east and west elevations each have a small window centrally placed.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case with four panes of glazing. The roof is red tiled, with decorative terracotta ridge details. Stone coped brick wallhead stacks are present, with a curvilinear design to the central block.

The interior, viewed in 2013, is characterised by vertically boarded timber to the dado, moulded timber window surrounds, and some margin-paned and timber doors. A central half-turn timber staircase with landings and turned balustrades is present. Changing rooms in the flanking wings were remodelled around 2001, but some original timber boarding remains.