Andy Murray’s Cromlix hotel bounces back into profit

Sir Andy Murray’s Cromlix hotel in Dunblane has returned to profit, up from nearly a £400,000 loss the prior year.

According to filings on Companies House, the Scottish property posted a profit of £193,379, while its cash reserves increased by more than £360,000 to £610,494.

The average monthly number of employees, including directors, during the year was 88, up from 82 the prior year.

The retired tennis champion and his wife Kim purchased the Victorian mansion set within 34 acres in February 2013, and for almost a decade the site was operated by Inverlochy Castle Management International (ICMI).

In January 2023, the family started to run Cromlix under a self-management model and that same year the hotel underwent a three-month refurbishment to feature a new restaurant as well as 15 bedrooms, a bar, billiards room and kitchen garden.

A notice on its website reads the hotel will remain closed between 4 January and 15 May 2026 for “the next stage of its transformation”.

This will include its new 80-cover restaurant, which will sit alongside the wall of the five-AA-star hotel’s main lawn and serve produce grown in its kitchen garden.

Its design will include a living sedum roof covered with vegetation, weathered steel and a circular entrance designed to make guests feel closer to nature.

Executive chef James Mearing, who joined Cromlix last year and previously led the three-AA-rosette Summer Lodge Country House Hotel and Restaurant in Dorset, will oversee the new project.