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Latitude: 55.8839 / 55°53'2"N
Longitude: -3.3385 / 3°20'18"W
OS Eastings: 316371
OS Northings: 666448
OS Grid: NT163664
Mapcode National: GBR 504D.1M
Mapcode Global: WH6SX.PCGP
Plus Code: 9C7RVMM6+HJ
Entry Name: Malleny Arms Hotel, 15 Main Street, Balerno, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 15 Main Street, Malleny Arms Hotel
Listing Date: 26 October 1994
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364097
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27106
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200364097
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Pentland Hills
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Later 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan public house. Honey-coloured sandstone ashlar at main front with stugged squared and snecked sandstone at rear and sides; polished stone margins and dressings. Base course; storng course; raised quoins.
W ELEVATION: 3 asymmetrical bays; decorative, full-height canted bay to outer left; piended roof with wrought-iron brattishing; dormer above. Door at centre; consoled cornice, 2-leaf half-glazed panelled door; wrought-iron bracket bearing 'Malleny Arms' sign; window above. Bipartite window at ground and 1st floor of outer right bay, stone mullion. 2 gabled, timber dormers symmetrically disposed, wrought-iron finials.
S ELEVATION: gable, blocked door to outer left, window off-centre to right at 1st floor, 2-bay, flat-roofed, cement-rendered block to outer right.
N ELEVATION: gable; basement door at centre ground; window to outer left at gablehead.
Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with lead flashings; dormers slate roof and slate-hung; broad, sandstone coped apex stacks.
INTERIOR: modernised bar.
The building is shown on the 1894 edition, and is identified as a public house on the 1913 edition. It is an important focus on the Main Street.
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