Sammy Baird's Bar, 44 South Street, Bo'Ness is a Grade C listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 2004. Public house.
Sammy Baird's Bar, 44 South Street, Bo'Ness
- WRENN ID
- winter-paling-auburn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 March 2004
- Type
- Public house
- OS grid reference
- NS 998 816
- Coordinates
- 56.01712, -3.6079
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sammy Baird's Bar, located at 44 South Street in Bo'ness, is a public house reconstructed in 1900 by Thomas Peattie of Knowe Park. This two-storey building features three bays and showcases Jacobean architectural details, situated on a corner site. The exterior is finished in stugged ashlar with ashlar dressings. Notable features include a ground floor and eaves cornice, a panelled blocking course adorned with anthemion finials, and a broken ball-finialled pediment. The entrance consists of a roll-moulded door, with shouldered openings on the ground and first floors; the first-floor openings are also architraved and tabbed with moulded aprons. Fielded pilasters with circular details further enhance the façade.
On the north (principal) elevation, there is a two-leaf panelled timber door with a deep plate glass fanlight to the left of centre, flanked by two large display windows. The first floor has regular fenestration, featuring a relief date carved on a shield between the centre and right bays. The northwest (corner) elevation displays a broad two-leaf panelled timber door with a deep plate glass fanlight at ground level, above which is a single window on the first floor, topped by a prominent pediment. The west elevation has a panelled timber door with a deep plate glass fanlight in the bay to the right of centre, accompanied by a window to the left and regular fenestration on the first floor. The east elevation contains windows in the centre and left bays on the first floor.
The ground floor features plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows, while the first floor has uPVC glazing. The building has a flat roof and cavetto-coped ashlar stacks with some cans.
Inside, the bar area boasts decorative plasterwork cornices, a cast-iron column, two-leaf screen doors, and linenfold dadoes and reveals.
Local climate
Sammy Baird's Bar, 44 South Street, Bo'Ness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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