The Dun Cow Public House

The Dun Cow Public House is a public house dating to 1901, designed by Benjamin F Simpson for R Deuchar. It is built of sandstone ashlar with a grey granite plinth, and features black marble door nook shafts, with a roof of graduated Lakeland slate. The architectural style is a vigorous free Baroque.

The building has three storeys, with a single window facing High Street West and a corner tower to the left; four windows are visible on the left return facing Garden Place. Polished black shafts rise from the plinth to support moulded segmental door hoods on large scrolled brackets. A blocked corner entrance is present, along with panelled doors with overlights at the centre front and under the gable on the left return. Ground floor windows have a segmental head to the lower light below a transom, and mullioned upper lights, with three in the windows flanking the corner and two in the others. The entablature retains original applied lettering reading "DUN COW HOTEL" and "Supplied by R. DEUCHAR Ltd.". The cornice breaks forward on large brackets to the round corner turret. A continuous second-floor sill string and top entablature is present. The turret, resting on richly carved brackets, has curved mullion and transom windows, with those on the first floor having pedimented entablatures. The High Street West front features an entablature to a shallow, five-light canted bay window with mullion and transom glazing on the first floor, and five sashes above, grouped 2:1:2 by rusticated jambs. The top entablature has wide modillions to the gutter cornice. A corniced blocking course supports a shaped gable with generously proportioned side consoles and rusticated pilasters. A round-headed dormer sits below an elaborate keystone with a damaged cartouche and date, and a top scroll pediment. The corner displays a blocking course that supports the arcaded drum of the turret, which features fat, tapered columns and keyed arches to the entablature. The left return has similar treatment to the front gable, with a date and initials in the dormer, flanked by plainer narrow bays, and linked to the corner turret by one further, plainer bay. A steeply pitched roof has tall ashlar chimneys set in the mid slope and at the ends. The turret has scroll-sided clocks projecting from a fishscale dome, topped with a spike finial swept from a disc.

The interior is reported to have high-quality back bar fittings in an Indo-Gothic style.