Robert George Muir was born in 1890.
As a partner in Wood, Sarvis and Muir, 17 Hard Street, London, he worked on several major contracts in Gerrards Cross. The firm designed two very large houses in Bull Lane in 1910, 'Hayes Barton' for Major Amesbury, and 'Bull Mead' for Thomas Wordley. Wood Sarvis & Muir also designed 'Badminton House', Marsham Way, for W.E. Preston.
Robert Muir became an A.R.I.B.A. in 1912 and was an F.R.I.B.A. by 1924. In independent practice, he had offices at 1, RaymondBuildings, GraysInn, London, and a small office at the back of Augustus Gibbons, estate agent’s, Station Parade, Gerrards Cross.
He laid out the new roads on the Ethorpe Estate in 1923, and designed several of the houses there, as well as alterations and additions to the hotel itself. Muir’s own house, 'Broadeaves', Ethorpe Close, featured in The Builder, in 1930. His houses resemble those of Edgar Ranger, with liberal use of tile-hanging to soften the appearance.
His most elegant houses are 'Arkeley', 69 Marsham Way, and 'Southwood', 26 South Park, both built in 1922.
Three of his houses are in close proximity in Orchehill Avenue. 1 Orchehill Avenue was built in 1920; ‘Cary House’ (now ‘Rampos Edge’), 19 Orchehill Avenue was built in 1924; and the present ‘Carey House’, 21 Orchehill Avenue, was built for Miss Audrey Baker, about 1960. He also designed the new French Horn Inn in 1946. Robert Muir died at Gerrards Cross in 1968.
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