Black Horse Hotel, 68 Queen Street, Newton Stewart is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Hotel.

Black Horse Hotel, 68 Queen Street, Newton Stewart

WRENN ID
shadowed-ember-fen
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 December 1979
Type
Hotel
OS grid reference
NX 411 649
Coordinates
54.95419, -4.48237
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Black Horse Hotel, located at 68 Queen Street in Newton Stewart, dates from the mid to later 19th century. This two-storey, five-bay hotel is situated at the end of a terrace and was originally two properties, arranged in a grouping of two and three. It features a projection that connects to coach and stable facilities at right angles to the rear. The building is rendered with contrasting painted dressings and a base course.

On the Queen Street elevation, the left side has two bays, with a door on the right flanked by a blocked door and a window to the left. The right side has three bays, with a centrally located door flanked by windows. The first floor has regularly spaced windows, and there are three canted, piend-roofed dormers from the late 19th century.

The rear elevation includes a single-storey lean-to rubble projection at the ground level in the centre and right, and a gabled two-storey projection to the left, featuring enlarged windows. The gabled coach and stable block is made of painted rubble and has a segmental carriage arch to the left, with hayloft openings above. There is a pedestrian door at the centre and a square-headed cart opening to the right, along with two gabled dormer-headed windows above. The windows are fitted with plate glass glazing in sash and case style, while the enlarged windows at the rear have four-pane and modern glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, graded to the rear, and there are gablehead stacks. The front features decorative cast-iron gutter brackets.

Local climate

Black Horse Hotel, 68 Queen Street, Newton Stewart sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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