Volunteer Arms, Victoria Street, Dunbar is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. House. 1 related planning application.

Volunteer Arms, Victoria Street, Dunbar

WRENN ID
dusk-rubble-thistle
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 February 1971
Type
House
Address
Volunteer Arms, Victoria Street, Dunbar, EH42 1HP
OS grid reference
NT 679 791
Coordinates
56.00435, -2.51497
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Volunteer Arms is an early 19th century, three-storey, symmetrical, three-bay house located on Victoria Street in Dunbar. The building is harled and features a painted projecting base course, margins, and a cill course on the first floor. A short flight of modern steps leads to the central door, which is accompanied by a cast-iron balustrade that forms a small forestair. The house has plate glass sash windows, with the windows on the second floor being smaller and positioned under the eaves. It also has broad gable head stacks and a slate roof that includes two slated dormers from the 19th century.

Local climate

Volunteer Arms, Victoria Street, Dunbar receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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