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  • The English Garden

    Reinventing A CLASSIC

    Jun 19, 2019 3 minutes
    WORDS AGNES STEVENSON
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    RAY COX

    HEAD EAST FROM EDINBURGH ALONG the Firth of Forth and you will find yourself on Scotland’s Golf Coast, a 30-mile stretch of shoreline, picturesque villages and rolling farmland that is home to a staggering 21 golf courses. Among the grand villas that began springing up here more than a century ago was Greywalls, built in 1901 as a holiday home for the politician Alfred Littleton, and one of only two examples in Scotland of the work of the most celebrated architect of the Arts & Crafts era, Sir Edwin Lutyens.

    Greywalls, which is built

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