10 Balcarres Road, Musselburgh

10 Balcarres Road in Musselburgh is a purpose-built golf clubhouse designed by John C Hay in 1875. This single-storey building with an attic features a rectangular plan and is semi-detached, showcasing Greek Revival architectural style. It overlooks the golf course grounds. The front has tripartite squared and canted bays with slated details, flanking a central stepped squared window with a hoodmould and a plaque underneath. There are small bipartite stone dormers with king post pierced barge-boarded gablets on either side of a smaller central window that has been infilled.

The entrance door is located on the side and is adorned with pilasters, paired slit windows, and ornate stone detailing carved with palmettes, topped with a gablet. The building is constructed of squared rubble with smooth ashlar margins, featuring finely chip carved details on the mullions reminiscent of the style of Alexander Greek Thomson. The bay windows have an advanced base course, and there is a later 20th-century panel displaying stone-carved heads of the five Musselburgh Open champions.

The windows are framed in aluminium, and the slate roof has deep bracketed overhanging eaves. Stone shouldered dormer stacks are topped with plain clay cans, and decorative cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

The boundary wall consists of a low coped dwarf wall at the front and north return, accompanied by later 20th-century railings and gates.

Inside, the clubhouse features a remarkable Greek Revival style stepped and coffered ceiling with foliate medallion detailing in the principal double-height golf clubroom, which spans the entire front elevation and includes a bar and a later 20th-century mezzanine. Timber panelling is present in the window bays, and a plain stair with turned timber banisters leads to the first-floor office rooms at the rear.