There are records of Cromlix from the 1500s, when the
Bishop of Dunblane sold the lands of Cromlix to his brother, Robert Chisholm. A house was built on the site in 1874 as a family residence in the time of Captain Arthur Drummond Hay, but was destroyed by fire in 1878. It was replaced in 1880 by Cromlix House. Cromlix House was built for Arthur Hay-Drummond, son of
the 11th Earl of Kinnoull.
King Edward VII visited in September 1908. The house remained a family home for the Hay-Drummonds until the 1971 death of Evelyn Hay-Drummond, who had married Terence Eden (8th
Lord Auckland). Cromlix House was converted in May 1981 from the Eden family home, and retained much of the original furniture and family portraits. It also contains Cromlix Chapel, a consecrated
Episcopalian Church in the
diocese of Dunblane dating from 1874 which was opened by reverend
Charles Wordsworth of
Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane. The church's
reredos were carved by Alexander MacDonald, a sculptor who lived in Rome. as well as two mineral springs. Between the 1980s and its closure on 16 February 2012, it was run as a
four-star country house hotel, with 14 bedrooms including eight suites. In 2006 Cromlix House – including the
game larder, ancillary building, gatepiers and garden boundary walls – was designated as a Category C
listed building. An obelisk
sundial in the garden is Category A listed. In October 2010, it served as the wedding venue for tennis player
Jamie Murray and Alejandra Murray (née Gutierrez). The hotel closed in 2011 and again in early 2013. In February 2013, it was confirmed that Andy Murray had bought the property for £1.8 million. It opened as a 15-room five-star hotel in April 2014. In April 2015, Cromlix was the venue for the wedding reception of tennis player
Andy Murray and his wife Kim, and the following year Murray's father and partner Sam Watson were married at the hotel. In January 2023, the Murray's moved to self-management of the hotel and closed the hotel for a total refurbishment. All of the hotel's bedrooms and bathrooms were renovated as well as the restaurant, the bar and all common areas of the hotel. A further bedroom (Dahlia) was added in 2025. In January 2026, the hotel closed again for further alterations. They include the construction of a new, glass fronted restaurant on the main lawn, a new, intimate, fine-dining restaurant inside the main building, three new bedrooms including an accessible, ground-floor suite, a one-person treatement space in the woodland and an extensive, state of the art kitchen serving all of the restaurants at the hotel. The Glasshouse will become a dedicated afternoon tea and events space, and a new private event room (The Library) will open on the first floor. ==Awards==