8 Balcarres Road, Former Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, Including Boundary Walls

J Dick Peddie and C G H Kinnear, 1865 with later additions. 2-storey, 3-bay, semi-detached, rectangular-plan piended roof former golf club house with single storey entrance porch to side sited overlooking the Musselburgh Links Golf Course. Coursed rubble with advanced ashlar quoins and advanced stop chamfered window margins. 1st floor band course. Symmetrical façade with central canted and slated window flanked by tall windows at ground with rounded, bipartite windows with stone consoled cills and shallow finialled above. Rendered late 20th century single storey addition to N of rear elevation.

4- and 6-pane timber sash and case windows to ground with plain glazing pattern to upper floor. Piended slate roof with bargeboards on decorative bracketed overhanging eaves and ball finials to gablets. Shouldered wallhead stack with plain cans, cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: (seen 2013) large principal former clubroom across front of ground floor overlooking golf course with canted bay window, recesses to rear and decorative egg and dart and florette style cornicing. Timber panelled shutters. Small turned side stair with cast iron banisters leading to simple floor plan at first floor. Interior remodelled to form children's nursery accommodation in the late 20th century.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low rubble, ashlar capped walls to front (E).