Malleny Arms Hotel, 15 Main Street, Balerno, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 October 1994. Public house. 5 related planning applications.

Malleny Arms Hotel, 15 Main Street, Balerno, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
twisted-barrel-sable
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 October 1994
Type
Public house
Address
Malleny Arms Hotel, 15 Main Street, Balerno, Edinburgh, EH14 7EQ
OS grid reference
NT 163 664
Coordinates
55.88388, -3.33847
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Malleny Arms Hotel, located at 15 Main Street in Balerno, Edinburgh, is a public house built in the later 19th century. It is a two-storey building with a three-bay rectangular plan. The main front is constructed of honey-coloured sandstone ashlar, while the rear and sides feature stugged squared and snecked sandstone. The building has polished stone margins and dressings, a base course, a strong course, and raised quoins.

On the west elevation, there are three asymmetrical bays, with a decorative full-height canted bay on the outer left. The roof is piended and adorned with wrought-iron brattishing, and there is a dormer above. The central entrance features a consoled cornice and a two-leaf half-glazed panelled door, with a wrought-iron bracket supporting a sign that reads 'Malleny Arms.' Above the door is a window, and the outer right bay has a bipartite window at both the ground and first floors, with a stone mullion. There are two gabled timber dormers symmetrically placed, each topped with wrought-iron finials.

The south elevation includes a gable with a blocked door on the outer left and a window off-centre to the right on the first floor. There is a two-bay, flat-roofed block rendered in cement on the outer right. The north elevation features a gable with a basement door at the centre ground and a window to the outer left at the gablehead.

The building has plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with lead flashings, and dormers that are slate-roofed and slate-hung. The apex stacks are broad and coped with sandstone.

Inside, the bar has been modernised.

Local climate

Malleny Arms Hotel, 15 Main Street, Balerno, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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