Bower Bar, 209 Main Street is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 July 2005. Public house. 3 related planning applications.

Bower Bar, 209 Main Street

WRENN ID
fossil-mullion-cream
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Rutherglen MP: Michael Shanks (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 July 2005
Type
Public house
OS grid reference
NS 615 617
Coordinates
55.8288, -4.2117
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Bower Bar is a building that likely dates from the early 19th century, although it has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay gabled house with its main entrance located at the southwest corner. There are later additions at the rear of the building. The exterior features white-painted render with painted ashlar dressings, including a base course, a deep fascia above the first-floor windows, an eaves course, quoin strips, and raised margins around the windows.

The front door is a two-leaf timber-boarded design, topped with a circular mutulled canopy and a prominent keystone above, which is supported by corbelling that extends out to a square shape at the first floor. The front elevation has three windows at the ground level with projecting cills and two windows on the first floor, along with a central blind window. The building has gablehead stacks.

The first-floor windows are timber sash and case with four-pane glazing, while the ground floor features fixed-pane glazing. The building is topped with an ashlar-coped skew and a coped stack, and it has a roof covered in graded grey slate.

Local climate

Bower Bar, 209 Main Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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