Tam O' Shanter Inn, 117 Queensberry Street, Dumfries is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 August 1987. Public house.

Tam O' Shanter Inn, 117 Queensberry Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
third-trefoil-cedar
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 August 1987
Type
Public house
OS grid reference
NX 971 762
Coordinates
55.07032, -3.61145
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Tam O' Shanter Inn, located at 117 Queensberry Street in Dumfries, is an early 19th-century building. It is two stories tall and features five bays, although the ground floor openings have been altered. The inn includes a public house, with a pend to the left that has been widened at the front, featuring a door to the public house set at a canted angle. The exterior is finished in painted ashlar, and there is a wide name fascia between the floors. The ground floor has modern glazing, while the first floor is adorned with sash windows that have a 12-pane glazing pattern. The building has straight skews, a rebuilt northern end stack, and a slate roof.

Local climate

Tam O' Shanter Inn, 117 Queensberry Street, Dumfries sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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