Buccleuch And Queensberry Arms Hotel, West Morton Street, Thornhill is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Hotel. 1 related planning application.

Buccleuch And Queensberry Arms Hotel, West Morton Street, Thornhill

WRENN ID
brooding-glass-raven
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
Hotel
OS grid reference
NX 878 954
Coordinates
55.24037, -3.76503
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Buccleuch and Queensberry Arms Hotel is a re-modelled building from the mid-19th century, which incorporates elements from a late 18th or early 19th century structure. It is a two-storey and attic hotel located on a corner, featuring a symmetrical five-bay elevation facing Drumlanrig Street and a six-bay wing along West Morton Street. The exterior is constructed of pink stugged ashlar coursers with polished dressings and includes a painted band course between the floors.

On the east elevation, there is an arched central door that is sheltered by a late 19th-century timber canopy supported by consoles, with a valance and iron brackets above. The building has 12-pane sash windows throughout and features gabled wall-head dormers, saw-toothed skews, and end stacks. The rear wing includes a bar on the right and two wall-head dormers on the left. The roofs are slate, and the rear elevations are asymmetrical, with a single-storey piend-roofed range that has two tall stacks on ramped plinths.

Local climate

Buccleuch And Queensberry Arms Hotel, West Morton Street, Thornhill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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