Basic Site Details Name: | Muirfield Golf Course | Town, district or village: | Gullane | City or county: | East Lothian | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Green keeper's cottage also known as Forrest Cottage.
Some of the information about the clubhouse would appear to conflict. | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Cottage | | | | Golf Club | | | | Clubhouse | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1891 | | Build/construction | Original clubhouse which consisted of 7 bedrooms, kitchen and office accommodation, small committe dining room and great hall/clubroom. | | 1895 | | Addition | Scheme for more dressing accommodation - extent of work not known. | | 1897 | | | Golf clubhouse | | 1906 | | Addition | Extension with staff quarters to west and increased changing room and laundry facilities to east. | | 1924 | | | Cottage, stable, greenkeeper's cottage and proposed car shelter | | 1928 | | | New golf clubhouse | | 1970s | | Alterations and additions | Alterations and extensions |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | Benjamin Hall Blyth II | | D | 1891 | | Original clubhouse which consisted of 7 bedrooms, kitchen and office accommodation, small committe dining room and great hall/clubroom. Blyth was a club member. | | Benjamin Hall Blyth II | | D | 1895 | | Scheme for more dressing accommodation - extent of work not known. | | George Washington Browne | | C | 1897 | | Golf clubhouse | | John More Dick Peddie | | C | 1897 | | Golf clubhouse | | Peddie & Washington Browne | | C | 1897 | | Golf clubhouse | | George Washington Browne | | F | 1906 | | Extension with staff quarters to west and increased changing room and laundry facilities to east. | | John More Dick Peddie | | F | 1906 | | Extension with staff quarters to west and increased changing room and laundry facilities to east. | | Peddie & Washington Browne | | F | 1906 | | Extension with staff quarters to west and increased changing room and laundry facilities to east. | | James McLellan Fairley | | A | 1924 | | Cottage, stable, greenkeeper's cottage and proposed car shelter | | Leadbetter, Fairley & Reid | | A | 1924 | | Cottage, stable, greenkeeper's cottage and proposed car shelter | | Robert Stirling Reid | | A | 1924 | | Cottage, stable, greenkeeper's cottage and proposed car shelter | | James McLellan Fairley | | B | 1928 | | New golf clubhouse | | Leadbetter, Fairley & Reid | | B | 1928 | | New golf clubhouse | | Robert Stirling Reid | | B | 1928 | | New golf clubhouse | | Colin Robert Campbell | | E | 1970s | | Alterations and extensions | | Dick Peddie & McKay | | E | 1970s | | Alterations and extensions | | Michael Charles Henderson | | E | 1970s | | Alterations and extensions | | Norman J Millar | | E | 1970s | | Alterations and extensions | | Ronald McDonald Malcolm | | E | 1970s | | Alterations and extensions |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers | |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Anon | | Muirfield | | | | | Diedrich, Richard J, FAIA | 2012 | Legendary Golf Clubhouses of the US and Great Britain | | Atlanta | p110-113 | | Hutchinson, Horace | 1897 | British Golf Links | | Repub,ished 2005 | p221 | | RIBA | 1980 | Directory of Practices 1980 | | | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Cowie and Seaton Collection | | CSE 1920/66/1-2, 1920/67/1, 1920/68/1 | | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Dick Peddie and McKay Collection | | DPM 1890/69/6 | | Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland | Canmore | 208847 | Proposed car shelter | | Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland | Canmore | 208846 | Green Keeper's Cottage | | Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland | Canmore | 208848 | Stable |
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