Bruce Arms Public House, 3 Castle Street, Lochmaben is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Pub. 2 related planning applications.

Bruce Arms Public House, 3 Castle Street, Lochmaben

WRENN ID
lost-forge-bistre
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
Pub
Address
Bruce Arms Public House, 3 Castle Street, Lochmaben, DG11 1NY
OS grid reference
NY 081 825
Coordinates
55.12915, -3.44188
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Bruce Arms Public House, located at 3 Castle Street in Lochmaben, is an earlier 19th century building that has undergone some alterations. It stands two storeys high and features three bays, with a public bar on the ground floor. The exterior is harled, accented by painted ashlar margins.

The central entrance consists of a modern two-leaf door topped with a decorative fanlight and a consoled segmental pediment. Above this, there is a plain wallhead pediment with an apex stack. To the left of the entrance, there is a door and a bipartite window. The building also has sash windows, which may have either plate glass or a four-pane glazing pattern. The roof is finished with graded slates and features straight skews and corniced end stacks.

Local climate

Bruce Arms Public House, 3 Castle Street, Lochmaben sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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