Moray Golf Club, Stotfield Road

Moray Golf Club, Stotfield Road

A predominantly two-storey Scots Baronial golf clubhouse designed by A and W Reid in 1892–3 and enlarged in 1900, with further alterations by Robert Baillie Pratt dated 1923 and later works. The building sits on sloping ground that falls away to the north, revealing a basement to the northwest elevation, and overlooks the links golf course to the west. A single storey wing extends to the north.

The exterior is constructed in squared, snecked and tooled sandstone with ashlar margins. The roofline features predominantly crowstepped gables and some triangular gables with cavetto moulded copes and cavetto skewputts. Ground floor windows have raked cills, while first floor windows have projecting cills; all feature chamfered arises. Windows are predominantly bipartite and tripartite with stone mullions, except those to the veranda which have timber mullions and transoms.

The southwest (entrance) elevation is roughly symmetrical across three bays. A single storey advanced glazed and timber veranda dominates this façade, with a panelled timber and glazed entrance door and sidelight to the centre set within a segmental arched, stop-chamfered and dated surround (1923). The entrance is flanked by bowed windows, all beneath a full-width veranda with a dentilled cornice. The veranda features a mullioned and transomed window at its centre and pairs of segmental arched openings to the flanking bays. The first floor has a single window under a triangular gable with a clock at the centre, flanked by tripartite windows under crowstepped gables. A crenelated parapet wallhead with corbelled base is positioned to the right.

The southeast (Stotfield Road) elevation comprises several integrated sections: advanced gables linked by a two-bay gabled range, further three-bay gabled range to the right, and a single storey crowstepped gable block to the outer right. The first floor is predominantly corbelled, with dentils to the linking section. The gable to the left features chamfered corners and a corbelled and corniced turret to its right. The two-bay section to the right has paired windows at ground floor, with first floor windows under a continuous hoodmould breaking eaves into triangular gables. An advanced gable to the right contains a flat arched opening at ground floor level with an inscription "19 MCC 89" above it; a shallow coped wall topped by timber balustrade encloses a ramp to this opening. The three-bay range to the outer right features a crowstepped gable at centre flanked by triangular gables, with a bipartite window at ground floor to the left.

The northeast elevation returns a single storey block to the left with a pair of square windows, abutted by a square gatepier with pyramidal cap. A rubble wall with semi-circular cope adjoins to the right, topped by a two-leaf timber entrance gate.

The northwest elevation has three bays with crowstepped gables. An advanced section at the centre contains ground floor and basement levels with a bow window, and a further bow window appears at ground floor to the right. A pair of windows at first floor serves the centre gable, and a tripartite window lights the bay to the left. A late twentieth century timber and concrete walkway and steps front this elevation. A single storey six-bay L-plan block extends to the outer left.

The roof is pitched grey slate with terracotta ridge tiles. A fishscale slate candle snuffer roof crowns the turret and is surmounted with a weathervane depicting a golfer. The veranda has a flat roof. Some original rainwater goods remain.

Windows predominantly feature multi-pane upper sashes over single pane timber windows, with some twelve-pane sash and case windows; some non-traditional replacement windows are present.

The interior (observed in 2013) includes a ground floor room to the right of the entrance with timber walls panelled to dado height, timber window seats and exposed timber beams. A wide flat-arched opening with folding timber doors leads to a dining room with a decorative plastered ceiling. Some timber mantelpieces and moulded timber architraves remain.