The Dean Tavern, Main Street, Newtongrange

The Dean Tavern, located on Main Street in Newtongrange, was designed by A Murray Hardie in 1910. This public house is set back from the street and features a gabled wing on the right, an M-gable wing at right angles to the left, and a flat-roofed addition to the front and left. The building is harled above a red brick base, with red sandstone dressings and a mock timbered gable at the front.

The front elevation includes a two-storey gable section on the far right, with an off-centre replacement door featuring a fanlight. Flanking windows have connecting red sandstone tabs. The first floor showcases mock timber studding, two mullioned bipartite windows, and a clock in the apex. A later brick, harled, and glazed addition to the left forms a porch at the entrance and obscures four windows behind. Above the entrance, red Gothic lettering reads 'The Dean Tavern'.

The south elevation features an advanced flat-roofed bar that extends along this side, with a brick base in the central section and harled surfaces elsewhere. It has single windows with red sandstone margins and connecting tabs, along with an entrance door to the bar. The main building has an M-gable, with a Venetian window in each gable apex.

The west elevation is partially visible and is harled, with two windows on the first floor. The north elevation is not visible as of 1999.

The building has timber sash and case windows, with six-pane upper lights (some replaced by one light) and a single lower light. The slate roof features rooflights, decorative clay ridge tiles, and plain timber bargeboards, along with raised ridge air vents and a harled chimney on the north elevation.

Inside, there is a recently furnished private bar to the south, while an old temperance bar on the second storey to the right was not seen as of 1999. The main bar is open to the roof and features three central arches with keystones, and corniced pillars with corbels that support the roof braces. The south wall has a timber-clad horseshoe bar, with fixed bench seating along the west and north walls. Each gable apex on the south side has a moulded, corniced, and bracketed Venetian window. Decorative screens cover the rooflights on the west side, while plain rooflights are present on the east. The roof construction is iron braced, featuring king posts and angle struts, painted blue with gold edging and gold rivets.