2014

NT2467 : New building at Fairmilehead

taken 10 years ago, near to Fairmilehead, Edinburgh, Scotland

New building at Fairmilehead
New building at Fairmilehead
The new building on the site of the Fairmilehead Inn is nearing completion. For an architect's impression of what it would look like see NT2467 : Replacement for the Fairmile Inn, and for the skeleton, 7 months ago, see NT2467 : Building site at Fairmilehead.
Fairmile Inn becomes Pentland Outdoor Centre

Originally built in the late 1930s as the Hillburn Roadhouse, the art-deco roadhouse-style pub, later described as a 1950s public house, the Fairmilehead Inn, was abandoned around 2004. It was closed and boarded-up by 2009, and was put up for sale in July 2011. A youtube video from 2012 gives an idea of what the inn was like after it had been abandoned. LinkExternal link . A report from 2013 gives a detailed account of the state of the inn at that time LinkExternal link .

The new Outdoor Centre fits into the landscape quite well, with the appropriate background of the Pentland Hills, whose users it is intended to serve. There are also some flats and I believed there will be some other retail outlets as well. Much more sympathetic than the plans proposed, and abandoned, in 2004, although planning permission had been granted LinkExternal link

The Big Red Directory LinkExternal link notes that the pub is still open [June 2015] !

Previously there had been an early medieval settlement on the site.


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Geographical Context: Lowlands Uplands Sport, Leisure Business, Retail, Services Suburb, Urban fringe Construction, Development Place: Edinburgh Fairmilehead Primary Subject: Building other tags: New Building Then and Now Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
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M J Richardson   (more nearby)
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Sunday, 28 September, 2014   (more nearby)
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Monday, 29 September, 2014
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