Black Bull Hotel, 40-43 The Square, Cumnock is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1977. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
Black Bull Hotel, 40-43 The Square, Cumnock
- WRENN ID
- drifting-lintel-oak
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1977
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Black Bull Hotel, 40-43 The Square, Cumnock, KA18 1BL
- OS grid reference
- NS 568 201
- Coordinates
- 55.45457, -4.26559
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Black Bull Hotel, located at 40-43 The Square in Cumnock, is an 18th-century building featuring a main centre part that is two stories high with five windows, constructed from diagonally droved ashlar. This central section was raised to three stories in the later 18th century and is recessed between two gable-fronted wings. The ground floor extends almost to the line of the wings and is adorned with a lattice balustrade and urns. The southern gable-fronted wing is also from the 18th century and has two windows. The northern wing, built in 1906, is a tall two-story structure with an attic, featuring a crowstepped gable on the west side and a bow front on the north with a central crowstepped gable. The building has painted surfaces with black-painted margins.
Local climate
Black Bull Hotel, 40-43 The Square, Cumnock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- 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
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