Starbank Arms, 62-64 Laverockbank Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Public house, houses. 2 related planning applications.
Starbank Arms, 62-64 Laverockbank Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- buried-nave-autumn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Public house, houses
- Address
- Starbank Arms, 62-64 Laverockbank Road, Edinburgh, EH5 3BZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 250 769
- Coordinates
- 55.97985, -3.20212
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Starbank Arms is an early 19th-century public house located at 62-64 Laverockbank Road in Edinburgh. It consists of two adjoining, two-storey, three-bay symmetrical houses. The exterior is made of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring a base course, projecting cills on the windows, an eaves band, and prominent rusticated quoins.
The east elevation has six bays that are regularly fenestrated, with doors located in the centre bay of each house. To the left, there is a glazed door with a plate glass fanlight above, adorned with a cornice that has fluted detail and a panel above featuring a shell motif at the corners. The door to the right has a cement surround and steps leading up to it. Additionally, there are four slate-hung piend-roofed attic dormers.
The north elevation, facing Starbank Road, has three bays and features a quatrefoil motif in the pedimented gable. There is a later single-storey extension to the west that includes a long window.
The windows are fitted with 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there are stone skews with corniced ashlar stacks at the ridge, some of which have been rebuilt, topped with circular cans.
Local climate
Starbank Arms, 62-64 Laverockbank Road, 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 76% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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