PLANS FOR ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATIONS AT THE SIR ANDY MURRAY HOTEL HAVE BEEN APPROVED.

Plans to add more guest rooms to the Cromlix Hotel have received approval from Stirling Council.
The permission to make additions to the C-listed building in order to accommodate more guests has been granted for Cromlix House, the opulent hotel owned by Sir Andy Murray and his spouse Kim, which is located close to Dunblane. The venue’s interior renovations have received conditional approval for listed building consent from Stirling Council. When Kim and Andy Murray purchased the Victorian mansion in 2013, it was completely renovated into a five-star hotel with fifteen rooms that combined classic and contemporary design elements. The hotel’s amenities included everything from afternoon tea to tennis lessons. The hotel’s most recent construction projects include filling in a stair void at the first floor, removing a balustrade, leveling a floor, taking out a lower ground door leading to a stairwell, and installing hatched access for maintenance and inspection purposes.
Four non-load bearing partition walls from the first floor will be taken down, and a former entrance door to the lounge from the hallway will also be put back in place.
Council officials made the decision to remove access to a staircase on the ground floor of the Victorian mansion house, which is located in a rural area near Dunblane, and to allow for the addition of new first-floor accommodations. They continued, saying, “It is surrounded by numerous related buildings, is set in extensive grounds, and benefits from many architectural features of merit.”This proposal requests approval to make internal changes to an area that is presently used for offices. Currently, the first floor is made up of offices, a kitchen, restrooms, and shower rooms. A variety of stud wall partitions and the original walls were used to create these areas. The main room’s fireplace and all of the original walls are to stay, but a new door from the main hallway will be installed at this level, and all of the partition walls will be taken down. The removal of the stud walls, the opening up of this area to restore the original room dimensions, and the addition of a new door are thought to enhance the historic asset’s character and not bring any concerns to light.”This is not considered to be contentious as the staircase is a simple timber structure and there are reasons to believe that along with its features the staircase is non-original.” The staircase will be hidden by a partition wall with the last two steps removed.