It’s easy to imagine that newly retired tennis star Sir Andy Murray—who Sky Sports just called “arguably Britain’s greatest ever athlete” after his final Olympics—might have given into the temptation to decorate his Scottish country house hotel with memorabilia. This is the home that tennis built! A star shines here!
But instead, his newly updated Cromlix hotel is a stately homage to Scotland’s history—and present—as well as his family’s personal history. The house was originally built in 1874 on an estate near Murray’s hometown of Dunblane that had belonged to an aristocratic family since the 15th century. (It was later rebuilt after a fire.) After it was converted to a hotel in 1982, the first party it hosted was the silver anniversary celebration of Murray’s grandparents, Roy and Shirley Erskine.
