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The pub’s story
Starbank Inn occupies a stone house range at 64 Laverockbank Road, close to the Newhaven waterfront. David King describes four original houses, thought to date from around 1810, with the upper homes reached from behind. He identifies the north ground-floor house as the first licensed part and notes a pub marked on an 1896 map. The 1900 trades' directory lists Starbank Arms on Laverockbank Road. Winter 1991-92 brought interior alterations and a rear conservatory, followed by another refit and Belhaven management in March 2010. Inside, CAMRA describes U-shaped bare-boarded rooms with brewery mirrors and model ships at the windows. Changing cask ales and views over the Forth give the rooms their present drinking character. The raised central doorway sits below the dark THE STARBANK INN fascia and upper sash windows. Peter Stubbs recalls attending local history meetings here around 2008, a role corroborated by the group's own leaflet.
What to notice
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Model ships stand at the windows overlooking the Forth.
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Brewery mirrors decorate the bare-boarded drinking rooms.
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The raised central doorway sits below the dark THE STARBANK INN fascia.
The time rail
The building, the pub and its interior may date from different periods. The timeline keeps documented dates separate from tradition.
David King dates the original four-house range approximately to this period.
King identifies a P.H. mark on the map at these premises.
Interior alterations included the rear conservatory.
Peter Stubbs recalls attending local history meetings here; the group's 2007 leaflet names Starbank as its monthly meeting place.
The pub was refitted and became a Belhaven managed house.
Sources & confidence
Five distinct chronology rows now include Starbank's documented role as a local history meeting place around 2008. A firsthand recollection and the group's 2007 leaflet corroborate the role; they do not establish a present event programme. Accepted building, pub-use,1991-92 and 2010 alterations, official seven-day hours and frontage evidence are preserved. Assets and live staging remain separate.
Research reviewed
- Current Starbank Inn at 64 Laverockbank Road, phone; Mon-Sat 12:00-23:00, Sun 12:00-22:30Belhavenofficial
SupportsCurrent Starbank Inn at 64 Laverockbank Road, phone; Mon-Sat 12:00-23:00, Sun 12:00-22:30. Food 12:00-20:00 is separate.
SupportsBelhaven/Greene King operation, U-shaped bare-boarded rooms, conservatory, brewery mirrors, model ships and Forth views; changing cask ales. Sunday 23:00 conflicts with official 22:30.
- Four-house range thought cDavid King, Granton Historyheritage
SupportsFour-house range thought c.1810; pub start unknown, north ground floor first licensed; 1896 map marked P.H.; winter 1991/92 interior/conservatory work; March 2010 refit and Belhaven managed house. Former Starbank Arms and Scotts names.
- Inspected official frontage: grey ashlar, dark fascia THE STARBANK INN, raised central reddish-brown door, low ground windows, three upper sash windows, slate dormersBelhaven official frontage photographappearance
SupportsInspected official frontage: grey ashlar, dark fascia THE STARBANK INN, raised central reddish-brown door, low ground windows, three upper sash windows, slate dormers. Capture date unknown.
- Exact way 351447760 with named premises geometry/coordinatesOpenStreetMap contributorsappearance
SupportsExact way 351447760 with named premises geometry/coordinates. HTTP 200 retrieved 2 September 2026. Bounding-box midpoint of exact named premises polygon, visually checked inside site; not viewport centre or entrance. Hours and operator tags not adopted.
- 1900 Edinburgh and South of Scotland Trades' Directory, printed p66Trades' Directories Limited; digitised scan hosted by Electric Scotlandarchive
Supports1900 titlepage and printed p66/PDF index 69 list Starbank Arms, Laverockbank Road in Hotels. Adds primary name/address corroboration to the older map/pub-use account, without claiming a 1900 renaming or new opening.
- Peter Stubbs: firsthand Starbank meeting recollection, 23 June 2013Peter Stubbs, EdinPhotoheritage
SupportsRecollections17, signed23June2013: Stubbs recalls attending several local history meetings at Starbank around2008. This dates actual attendance, not webpage retrieval. He says the group had ceased meeting several years before his recollection; no current meetings or precise start/end dates inferred.
- Granton History Group: 2007 leaflet names Starbank as monthly meeting placeDavid King, Secretary, Granton History Grouparchive
SupportsTwo-page leaflet: page1 names monthly meetings at Starbank Inn, Laverockbank Road; page2 has explicit copyright2007. Corroborates the historical venue role recalled by Stubbs around2008. Gasworks dates and photographs concern the gasworks, not the pub. No present recurring event is inferred.
