Sullivan's Bar, Main Street, Renton is a Grade C listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1996. Tenement.
Sullivan's Bar, Main Street, Renton
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-bastion-dust
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- West Dunbartonshire
- Constituency
- West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1996
- Type
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NS 388 784
- Coordinates
- 55.97181, -4.58444
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sullivan's Bar is a 2-storey, asymmetrical Baronial corner tenement built in 1891, featuring a shopped ground floor. The exterior is constructed from stugged squared and snecked sandstone, accented with red sandstone margins and dressings, and includes crowstepped gables and a string course.
The east (Main) Street elevation has four bays, with a sixth corner turret bay on the outer right. There is a two-bay gable on the outer left that is slightly advanced, featuring a crowstepped gable with a stack to the right supported by a shallow bracket. The windows are symmetrically arranged, with ashlar transoms and a hoodmould that steps over a CP monogram and an 1881 datestone at the center. To the right, there are two windows, with the rightmost window having an ashlar transom and mullion. The two-stage corner turret has a bowed window with an attic storey, round-headed windows, a cornice, and a candlesnuffer roof. The ground floor has a shopfront and fascia, although the windows are blocked. There is a 9-panelled door in the penultimate bay to the left and a modern door in the third bay from the right.
On King Street, the ground floor is also shopped with blocked windows. The outer left features a broad gable with a chimney flue at the center and a window to the right, along with two windows at the center. The outer right has a narrow gable with a bipartite window, ashlar mullions and transoms, and a stepped hoodmould.
The interior was not seen in 1995. The building has 4-pane and plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, and corniced apex stacks.
Local climate
Sullivan's Bar, Main Street, Renton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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