Golden Bull Inn, 85 High Street, Dumfries is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Commercial. 1 related planning application.

Golden Bull Inn, 85 High Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
stubborn-cupola-vale
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 March 1981
Type
Commercial
OS grid reference
NX 972 760
Coordinates
55.06796, -3.61049
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Golden Bull Inn, located at 85 High Street in Dumfries, is a building from the earlier to mid-19th century. It has three storeys plus a low attic storey above the main cornice and features four bays. The ground floor has a modern shop front. The building is constructed of painted ashlar, with the first and second floor windows framed by architraves and featuring string courses at the cill levels. The first floor windows are adorned with consoled hoods, and the building has modern glazing throughout. It has end stacks and a slate roof.

Local climate

Golden Bull Inn, 85 High 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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