Latitude: 56.3424 / 56°20'32"N
Longitude: -2.8031 / 2°48'11"W
OS Eastings: 350450
OS Northings: 716957
OS Grid: NO504169
Mapcode National: GBR 2R.466H
Mapcode Global: WH7RZ.XVB7
Plus Code: 9C8V85RW+WP
Entry Name: 6 Pilmour Links, St Andrews
Listing Name: 6 Pilmour Links with Boundary Walls, Gate and Railings
Listing Date: 23 June 1999
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393506
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46271
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393506
Location: St Andrews
County: Fife
Town: St Andrews
Electoral Ward: St Andrews
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: House
S ELEVATION: symmetrical. Panelled timber door and plate glass fanlight to centre bay, bipartite windows in flanking bays have chamfered arrises and block pediments with incised ornament; plain bipartite windows to outer bays at 1st floor; two piended dormers within the parapet.
Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates.Coped ashlar stacks and ashlar-coped skews; cast-iron downpipes and decorative rainwater hoppers.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATE AND RAILINGS: low, saddleback-coped, squared rubble boundary walls with inset railings and iron gate.
Part of a B Group comprising Forgan House in The Links and Pilmour Links, the Rusack's Hotel in Pilmour Links, 2-4 Golf Place with 1 Pilmour Links, 12-24 Golf Place (Even Nos), 3, 6, 7, 16-18A, and 19 Pilmour Links and 7-8, 12, 13, 15-16, 18 The Links.
The site was feued in 1823. By 1839 it was owned by the clubmaker Hugh Philp who built a workshop a the north end of the feu, fronting The Links. In 1861, 6 Pilmour Links, together with the workshops, was bought by Richard Bartholomew Child on Henley-on-Thames for his son-in-law the clubmaker George Daniel Brown. Tom Morris (1821-1908) championship golfer, club and ballmaker bought it in 1866.
Tom Morris's son, Young Tom (b. 1851), also a championship golfer, died at 6 Pilmour Links on Christmas Day 1876. Old Tom, a widower from 1876, rebuilt the workshop at the north end of the feu to provide a house over the workshops for himself and his two surviving sons. James Ogilvie Fairlie (b. 1856) and John (b. 1859) in 1882-3. (See listed building entry for Tom Morris House, 7, 8 The Links [LB46273].) No 6 Pilmour Links was then taken over by his son-in-law James Hunter (1848-1896), a timber merchant from Prestwick with a business first at Darien, Georgia, and then Mobile, Alabama. At some point thereafter, probably 1908-09, the feu was divided with the garden at 6 Pilmour Links and mutual with No. 5 is a large wall, eleven feet in diameter now covered over.
The house was ultimately inherited by Hunter's daughter Jamesina whose husband the engineer, Thomas George Morrow, reconstructed it around 1925.
Listed building record revised in 2020.
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