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Latitude: 55.8767 / 55°52'36"N
Longitude: -3.3252 / 3°19'30"W
OS Eastings: 317184
OS Northings: 665632
OS Grid: NT171656
Mapcode National: GBR 506H.W6
Mapcode Global: WH6SX.WKR6
Plus Code: 9C7RVMGF+MW
Entry Name: The Glen, 44 Harlaw Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 44 Harlaw Road, the Glen, Malleny Mill with Mill Lade and Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 30 January 1981
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363806
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26907
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200363806
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Pentland Hills
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Built 1805 but dated 1825; burnt 1910, rebuilt 1920. 2-storey over raised basement; rectangular-plan former mill converted to dwelling, retaining waterwheel. Rubble with harl-pointing and droved ashlar margins and dressings; raised cills; droved quoins.
NE ELEVATION: broad gable; door at centre of principal floor; timber with 3-pane fanlight, datestone 1825; reached by stone, formerly cast-iron hand rails now modern wood; door to basement below street level at outer right. Flanking windows at ground; pair of windows at gablhead. Possible base of finial at apex.
SE ELEVATION: 5-bay symmetrical front with lean-to return of wheel-house to outer left. Former window altered as door at centre ground, 2-leaf, narrow boarded door with 3-pane fanlight.
NW ELEVATION: 5 symmetrical bays with lean-to wheel-house to outer right. Windows symmetrically disposed at ground and 1st floor. Single story over raised basement, half-piend block advanced in front of lean-to wheel-house.
12-pane sash and case windows. Grey slate roof, lead flashings; raised ashlar skews; ridge and wallhead stacks.
INTERIOR: large open space at principal floor level. Timber beams surviving from pre-1910; remains of blocking wood course above windows (charred from 1910 fire). Number of features remaining from 1920s conversion, including large fireplace at principal level.
MILL LADE: exposed to SE of mill; well-constructed ashlar-lined lade.
The building was built in 1805 as a flax mill, it was still being used for spinning on the 1st edition map but in the mid 19th century the mill was used as a grain mill. The building was burned internally in 1910 and was then converted to a ladies school in the 1920s by Mrs Ritches, a leading Edinburgh figure in the advancement of kindergarten education. The breast-shot water wheel remains intact but can no longer turn due to the domestic conversions.
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