The Central Bar, 2 Victoria Street, Newton Stewart is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Inn.

The Central Bar, 2 Victoria Street, Newton Stewart

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 December 1979
Type
Inn
OS grid reference
NX 411 653
Coordinates
54.95757, -4.48277
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Central Bar, located at 2 Victoria Street in Newton Stewart, is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay inn featuring a distinctive bowed bay on the south gable facing Church Lane. The building is constructed of painted rubble with raised painted margins and rusticated quoins.

On the ground floor, there is a central wide doorway with a double-leaf panelled door and a fanlight above. To the left of the doorway are two plate glass windows, while to the right is a single window. The first floor has three regularly spaced sash and case windows, all with a two-pane glazing pattern. The building features a moulded eaves band, end skews, and coped end stacks topped with octagonal cans. The slate roofs are graded towards the front. There are also a pair of canted, piend-roofed dormers with billet moulding and modern glazing.

The side facing Church Lane has a full-height projecting bowed bay with tripartite windows, although the sidelights on the first floor are blind. A small door at the gablehead provides access to the parapet or balcony. Additionally, there is a single-storey wing extending towards Church Lane.

Local climate

The Central Bar, 2 Victoria 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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