Golden Cross, 58 George Street, Stranraer

The Golden Cross is a late 18th century public house located at 58 George Street in Stranraer. It is a three-storey, three-bay building with a symmetrical rectangular plan. The ground floor features painted harl, while the upper storeys are finished with painted render. Architectural details include a base course, a dividing string course, crowstepped gables, corbels, and hoodmoulds above the first and second floor openings on the south side, and above the first floor only on the west side. The second floor openings on the west side have cill brackets, and all other openings have painted surrounds.

On the south elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a central two-leaf recessed timber door with 'Golden Cross' inscribed on the fascia. Flanking the entrance are recessed bow windows at ground level. The first floor has two single windows and a sundial at the center, with a central single window in the gablehead. The corbel table features a 'C' and '+' within it, along with a thistle motif.

The west elevation, facing Queen Street, is also three-bay. It has entrance doorways located at the outer left and to the left of center, with a single window dividing them and two single windows to the right. The first and second floors have regular fenestration, with a shamrock motif on the left gable and a flower motif on the right.

The building features plate glass timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, corniced gablehead stacks, circular cans, crowstepped skews, and moulded skewputts. The interior was not seen in 1997.