Bluebell Inn, 2-10 High Street, Annan is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Inn. 1 related planning application.
Bluebell Inn, 2-10 High Street, Annan
- WRENN ID
- crooked-moat-grove
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Inn
- OS grid reference
- NY 191 665
- Coordinates
- 54.98712, -3.26512
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bluebell Inn, located at 2-10 High Street in Annan, is primarily a mid-19th century building that incorporates earlier structures. It is situated beside the bridge at the western approach to the town. The inn consists of two adjoining two-storey ranges with attics and basements, along with a stable court to the rear. The west flank features a piended two-bay design, and the lengthened west wall of the stables rises from the riverbank's retaining walls. The building is mainly constructed of red sandstone and has slate roofs.
The west range presents a polished ashlar six-bay elevation facing High Street, featuring two doors, modern glazing at the ground floor, and single windows along with bipartite windows on the first floor. A band course runs below the first-floor cill band, and there is an attic wallhead gable to the right.
The east range has two storeys and three bays, with a central door that features an inserted bolection-moulded doorpiece breaking the base course. The basement is made of roughly-coursed rubble, and the range includes six and nine-pane sash windows, three dormers, straight skews, and end stacks.
The stable court is a cobbled area enclosed on the north and east by high walls, with a gate leading to Battery Street. The stables, which are now part of the hotel accommodation, have timber-lintelled bays and a loft built of brick with ashlar uprights dividing the bays, along with a central boarded hatch.
Inside, there is a central entrance corridor that opens out to a bar and an open plan arrangement, which was formerly two rooms. The bar features a plain counter and gantry, with inter-war panelling on the walls and pilasters. There are two timber chimneypieces with Delft tile insets. The intact gentlemen's restroom includes tiling and Shanks Urinals, which are noted in Scotland's True Heritage Pubs.
Local climate
Bluebell Inn, 2-10 High Street, Annan sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Stable Court, Blue Bell Inn, 2 -10 High Street, Annan
- Bridge House, 5 High Street, Annan
- Bridge House, 7 High Street, Annan
- Bridge House, 9 High Street, Annan
- Annan Town Hall
- Bridge Of Annan, Annan
- Old Parish Church, High Street Graveyard, Annan
- 18 Port Street
- 20 Port Street
- 2 Carlyle's Place, Annan