The Wheatsheaf Inn, 209 Balgreen Road, Edinburgh

The Wheatsheaf Inn, located at 209 Balgreen Road in Edinburgh, is a single storey and attic building designed in 1934 by Robert Matthew of Lorimer and Matthew. This Scottish Arts and Crafts roadhouse features a combination of rendered brick and polished sandstone ashlar dressings, including a base course, stone cills, and surrounds to openings, as well as a cornice.

The west elevation, which serves as the entrance, has three bays. It features a gabled projecting central stair tower with an architraved doorway, flanked by a two-leaf timber door on the right and a single window on the left. There is a small window at the ground level in the center, and a carved boss above the cill of a strip window that rises to the eaves. A trade sign is suspended from a bracket. The outer left and right bays contain tripartite windows set in recessed areas, with quadripartite box dormers above.

On the south elevation, there is a central doorway with a carved stone panel above it, flanked by single windows on both the ground and first floors, and an additional single window at ground level on the outer left. The windows include fixed-pane, casement, and sash and case small-pane styles. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a swept piended design, with carved scrolled shoulders on the wallhead stack and stone skewputts.

Inside, the decorative treatment is plain. The property is also marked by circular-section gatepiers made of squared rubble sandstone, along with a low coped boundary wall along the street and a stepped rendered wall to the north.