Rutherford's Bar, 3 Drummond Street is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Public house.

Rutherford's Bar, 3 Drummond Street

WRENN ID
muted-keep-ivy
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
Type
Public house
OS grid reference
NT 260 733
Coordinates
55.94742, -3.18569
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Rutherford's Bar, located at 3 Drummond Street, is a public house built in the later part of the 19th century, with possible earlier elements. It is a single-storey, symmetrical building featuring five bays and a unique Classical timber frontage, highlighted by a decorative central wallhead panel. The exterior includes a cill course, cornice, and a fascia with moulded timber lettering, along with a balustraded parapet topped with ball finials at the outer corners. The stallrisers are panelled in timber, and there are transom lights above. Panelled Ionic-style pilasters and decorative mullions divide the bays. The entrance doors, located in the outer bays, are six-panel timber doors. The central decorative wallhead panel is notable for its segmental-arched pediment and fluted pilasters, and it features a moulded horse figurehead along with the lettering 'ESTABLISHED 1834 TRADEMARK'.

Inside, as observed in 2007, the bar retains a decorative scheme from the late 1950s. There are two rooms with decorative cornice plasterwork, suspended timber beams over the bar counter, and a small hatch bar. Some Victorian decorative etched glass is also present.

Local climate

Rutherford's Bar, 3 Drummond Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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